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Select myField, substring(myField,3,len(my<wbr />Field)-2) as FromCharacter3, substring(myField,1,2) as FirstTwoCharacters<br />
from MyTable
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Select myField, substring(myField,3,len(myField)-2) as FromCharacter3, substring(myField,1,2) as FirstTwoCharacters
from MyTable

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Sure:<br />

<pre><code id="code-20-40566066-1">UPDATE TableName
SET ColTwo = LEFT(ColOne,2),
   ColOne = RIGHT(ColOne,LEN(ColOne)-2),</code></pre>
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Sure:


UPDATE TableName
SET ColTwo = LEFT(ColOne,2),
   ColOne = RIGHT(ColOne,LEN(ColOne)-2),

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FYI, the separate column with only two characters would be more efficient as:<br />
char(2)<br />
rather than varchar(2).
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FYI, the separate column with only two characters would be more efficient as:
char(2)
rather than varchar(2).

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be aware that len will result in you losing trailing spaces from the column if that could be important to you.<br />
<br />
you might want to use datalength instead which deals with numbers of bytes (which need to be divided by 2 if it is an NVARCHAR column)
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be aware that len will result in you losing trailing spaces from the column if that could be important to you.

you might want to use datalength instead which deals with numbers of bytes (which need to be divided by 2 if it is an NVARCHAR column)

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Hi,<br />
<br />
Is it possible to remove the first two characters from a table column and place those characters in another separate field.<br />
The fields are both VARCHAR.<br />
Any help would be appreciated.<br />
Thanks
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Hi,

Is it possible to remove the first two characters from a table column and place those characters in another separate field.
The fields are both VARCHAR.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Remove first two characters and place in seperate field

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