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 String functions, parsing based on a particular character

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Posted - 2001-12-31 : 09:52:50
lisa writes "Does anyone know a way to select from a field, and parse at the same time, but be able to parse based on a certain character? I realize that you can use string functions to accomplish this, however, I am worried about the performance impact of using too many functions in my select statement. I will be creating a view when doing my select and therefore, I am looking for the optimum performance solution. For example, if the field values in the original table are: lisa@inovaware.com tom@ac.com then I would want to select into my first column: lisa tom and in my second column: inovaware.com ac.com"

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Posted - 2001-12-31 : 10:49:29
select substring(columnname,1,charindex('@',columnname)-1),
substring(cloumnname,charindex('@',columnname)+1,len(columnname))
from tablename

should do it

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