April 22, 2005 at 9:28 am
Hi All!
Can anyone give me an assit with correctly formatting my column calls in a select statement?
Details:
Lets say I got a column in a table called SalesName with a length of 50. Well, in my select statement I want to rename the column and return only 25 positions from the field. How do I format the TSQL syntax for this?
I could only get as far as the following without throwing an error.
select SalesName "Name" from CommERV where ProcessDate = '1/1/05'
and RevDate = '1/1/05'
and TIN = '2042416'
TIA!
-MJ
April 22, 2005 at 10:10 am
SELECT
SUBSTRING(SalesName,1,25) As Name
FROM
CommERV
WHERE
ProcessDate = '1/1/05'
AND RevDate = '1/1/05'
AND TIN = '2042416'
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Dinakar Nethi
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April 23, 2005 at 9:24 pm
Here's a couple of other ways...
SELECT
LEFT(SalesName,25) As Name
FROM
CommERV
WHERE
ProcessDate = '1/1/05'
AND RevDate = '1/1/05'
AND TIN = '2042416'
SELECT
CAST(SalesName AS VARCHAR(25)) As Name
FROM
CommERV
WHERE
ProcessDate = '1/1/05'
AND RevDate = '1/1/05'
AND TIN = '2042416'
The latter of the two actually does a better job of limiting the column length for output purposes. I dunno if LEFT is any faster than SUBSTRING but it's less to type.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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