exctracting the first 6 characters from a varchar SQL an getting age

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Hi i would like to know if i have an identity number as follows (780539878676) as a varchar and i want to pull out the first 6 characters and get the age from this identity number how do i do that? in SQL 2005

Posted 9-Aug-10 21:23pm

allaparaclatus

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**R. Giskard Reventlov** · Answer 1 · 2010-08-09T21:37:00

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select substring('780539878676', 1,6) gets you the first 6 characters. However, to what age do you refer? Where in that string is a date stored? Please clarify.

Posted 9-Aug-10 21:37pm

R. Giskard Reventlov

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allaparaclatus 10-Aug-10 4:12am

Thank you, the First 2 (Two) digits are the year of Birth thats 78 is the Birth year.

R. Giskard Reventlov 10-Aug-10 5:05am

so just do substring(foo, 1,2) to get the age if that's what you need.

allaparaclatus 10-Aug-10 6:40am

Thanks