Re: SQL UPDATE question

am Fri, dem 14.03.2008, um 13:30:02 -0500 mailte Joshua folgendes:
> Hi,
> Here is a quick and easy one I have a questions about:
>
> I have a table (customers) that has a field (firstname) with the
> following data.
>
> firstname
> --------------------
> Mike H
> Josh
> Jim B
> Katie I
> Jeff
> Suzy
> John R
>
>
> Can someone provide the syntax for a SQL UPDATE statement that will
> remove middle initial in the above column and leave the first name intact?

A little hint, i hopen it is helpful for you:

test=*# select regexp_replace('Mike H', ' .*$','');
regexp_replace
----------------
Mike

You can use this regexp_replace() - function in your UPDATE-Command.
Attention: i assume, that there are no space before the first name.

Andreas
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