Comments on: Removing spaces between two words in SQL

By: coolvinnu2005

coolvinnu2005 — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:54:56 +0000

Hi below is the solution for ur problem. Hope by this time you might have got a best answer. If not then you can use the below query

select substr(‘FirstName LastName’,1,(instr(‘FirstName LastName’,’ ‘)-1)) from dual

By: jhakas

jhakas — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:07:17 +0000

I Guess It would be
Select
(Substr(‘FirstName LastNAme’,1,
(instr(‘FirstName LastNAme’,’ ‘)-1)))
from dual;
If the DB is Oracle.

By: maverick2000

maverick2000 — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:52:03 +0000

If you’re on Oracle Platform then you can try this:

select substr(‘Name’,0, INSTR(‘Name’,’ ‘))
“First Name” FROM Names_Table

By: olgeni

olgeni — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:49:38 +0000

for ORACLE you can use

select substr(name,1,instr(name,’ ‘)-1) from employees;
Ex//

select substr(‘Smith Mary’,1,instr(‘Smith Mary’,’ ‘)-1) last_name from dual;

last_name
———
Smith

By: randym

randym — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:24:37 +0000

For removing the space, Oracle has the REPLACE function:

SQL> select replace(‘this is an example’,’ ‘,’ ‘) from dual;

REPLACE(‘THISISANE
——————
this is an example

By: dansken

dansken — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:40:43 +0000

If you are on an Oracle platform you would use an instr to find the space.

substr(Name,1,instr(Name,’ ‘))

By: jhoman

jhoman — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:27:18 +0000

You don’t specify which database you are using, but in MS SQL Server the function CHARINDEX will let you find the first occurance of a space – then use that number – 1 for the length of the LEFT expression on your name column. You can find these functions in the SQL Server Books Online help.