Let us now consider another example where we need to retrieve a substring that is much greater than the maximum number of the total characters present in the string. Let’s assume that from the stringencyclopedia,we need to extract a substring that is of fourteen characters, starting at the ...
In conclusion, SUBSTRING is a beneficial function in SQL Server that allows us to extract a portion of a string based on a specific starting position and length. It can manipulate and transform string data in various ways, such as removing unwanted characters, extracting meaningful information, an...
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As like what we did in the earlier example, we can even use a negative integer in this variation as well to extract the string as follows: SUBSTRING(‘THIS IS A SAMPLE, -11,2) To extract the below value: -11 is the position from the right where the starting point would be. And 2...
The following example will separate the name from the domain in an email address. SELECTEmailAddress,SUBSTRING(EmailAddress,1,CHARINDEX('@',EmailAddress)-1)asusername,SUBSTRING(EmailAddress,CHARINDEX('@',EmailAddress)+1,LEN(EmailAddress)+1-CHARINDEX(' ',EmailAddress))asdomainFROM[Person].[Email...
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The function computes the value of start+length-1. -1+3-1 = 1 and is greater than zero, SQL SUBSTRING extracts one character from the start of the input string. The output is s. If the start+length-1 is zero or less than zero, an empty string returns, as shown in the example be...
Now I'm going to show an example of how to use these together. Imagine you have a table with a column called "Name", within that column you have various names, with different lengths; but all have one thing in common, a space. You're asked to only display the forename,...
Now in the next example the query is SUBSTR(‘HELLO’,2,2), here the start position is 2 which is ‘E’ and it will extract 2 characters from the string ‘Hello’ so the result is ‘EL’: Let us take another example of a substring in Oracle SQL. I used the query SUBSTR (‘HELL...