Trim a column value in SQL

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I have a database field END_TIME of type varchar.
The data in it of following pattern:

END_TIME
---------
09/06/2013 05:07:02 PM

Now I only need "05:07:02 PM" part. How can I achieve it?

Also I have
TOTAL_TIME
--------------
00 hrs 01 mins 40 secs

I need to show only minutes. Like 1.4 mins or 1 min 40sec.

Please help

Posted 8-Sep-13 23:20pm

Abhijit Singha Roy

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Hi,

You can try below code also...

SQL

DECLARE @END_TIME VARCHAR(50)
SET @END_TIME = '09/06/2013 05:07:02 PM'
SELECT SUBSTRING(@END_TIME, CHARINDEX(' ',@END_TIME ,1)+1,20)

Let me know what logic you want to use to frame "00 hrs 01 mins 40 secs" to "1.4 mins or 1 min 40sec"

Regards,
GVPrabu

Posted 9-Sep-13 5:17am

gvprabu

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Mubin M. Shaikh · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-09T00:53:00

Hi ,

You can use Substring for extraction of part of string like this, if your column name is salesdate and it contains date given by you , data type of this column is varchar. then you can go for this.

select SUBSTRING(salesdate,11,14 ) from test

In substring function salesdate is columnname,11 is starting point of extraction,14 is length upto which you need to extract the string.

This way you can do extraction and then concatination to join two values.hope this will helps.

Regards,
Mubin