How to get only having one word in a column from a table

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I have a table employee in that Name is a column.

I want to get all employees who are having only one word in their name. Like Ram,john not like Ram charan, John smth..

Posted 22-Aug-13 2:01am

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Updated 22-Aug-13 2:03am

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thanh_bkhn · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-22T02:59:00

Solution 2

Assume the words are got separated by space, then you can use:

SQL

WHERE Name NOT LIKE '%[^ ]% [^ ]%'

It will return set of names not having a space between other words.

Posted 22-Aug-13 2:59am

thanh_bkhn

Updated 22-Aug-13 3:27am

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Maciej Los 22-Aug-13 9:26am

+5

Maciej Los · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-22T03:30:00

Solution 3

Solution 1 and 2 are very good.

Another way is to use CHARINDEX[^] function.

SQL

SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM([Name])) AS [Name]
FROM TableName
WHERE CHARINDEX(' ', LTRIM(RTRIM([Name]))) = 0

Note:
LTRIM[^] and RTRIM[^] function is used to remove leading and ending spaces.

Posted 22-Aug-13 3:30am

Maciej Los

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fjdiewornncalwe 22-Aug-13 9:53am

My 5.

Maciej Los 22-Aug-13 14:07pm

Thank you, Marcus ;)

Thanks7872 22-Aug-13 11:33am

I like this way. Upvoted.

gvprabu 22-Aug-13 11:47am

My 5+ :-)

Maciej Los 22-Aug-13 14:08pm

Thank you, Gopal ;)

Thanks7872 · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-22T02:04:00

Solution 1

Refer this link

SQL LIKE Operator[^]

Regards..:)

Posted 22-Aug-13 2:04am

Thanks7872

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Maciej Los 22-Aug-13 9:26am

+5

Thanks7872 22-Aug-13 11:32am

Thanks Maciej.