Query for separate numbers from the string

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id  name

1   Ajil S (C1185)
2   Ajil S (C1185)
3   Joe P (C1157)
4   Joe(A1160)
5   Raj (A1174)
6   Sreemathi (A1190)
7   Nadarajan P (C1187)
8   Sreemathi S (C1230)
9   Rajakumaran C (C1192)

SQL

i have a name like this "name"(5 degits of code)

how to get the name from this column,this is my query

SQL

select left(name,(len(name)-7)) from tbl_payment_fake

it shows the error

ASM

Msg 537, Level 16, State 5, Line 1
Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function.

Posted 18-Dec-13 1:54am

King Fisher

Updated 18-Dec-13 2:02am

v3

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Dec-13 8:49am

The question is: why did you mix up names with other information in one column? You need to design database properly, instead of solving such problems.
—SA

3 solutions

Solution 1

Chances are that you have bad data in there: try running a simple query:

SQL

SELECT id, name FROM tbl_payment_fake WHERE LEN(Name) < 8

and see what you get - if you have any you may need to fix them first.

Posted 18-Dec-13 2:36am

OriginalGriff

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King Fisher 18-Dec-13 23:18pm

thanks ,i solved this

Solution 2

Test it:

SQL

DECLARE @tmp TABLE ([Name] VARCHAR(30))

INSERT INTO @tmp ([Name])
VALUES('Ajil S (C1185)'),
('Ajil S (C1185)'),
('Joe P (C1157)'),
('Joe(A1160)'),
('Raj (A1174)'),
('Sreemathi (A1190)'),
('Nadarajan P (C1187)'),
('Sreemathi S (C1230)'),
('Rajakumaran C (C1192)')


SELECT RTRIM(LEFT([Name],CHARINDEX('(',[Name])-1)) AS NewName
FROM @tmp

Result:

Ajil S 
Ajil S 
Joe P 
Joe
Raj 
Sreemathi 
Nadarajan P 
Sreemathi S 
Rajakumaran C

Posted 18-Dec-13 2:39am

Maciej Los

Updated 18-Dec-13 2:40am

v2

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King Fisher · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-18T17:16:00

Solution 3

SQL

select reverse(substring(reverse(name),8,100)) from tbl_payment_fake

its working.

Posted 18-Dec-13 17:16pm

King Fisher