From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is there anyway to do this?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:13:33 -0500
Message-ID: <20021018171333.GA26785@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1034959557.27181.3.camel@Monet>
References: <1034959557.27181.3.camel@Monet>
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:45:56 -0400,
Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com> wrote:
> I have a table
>
> Table "Users"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> -----------+------------------------+-----------
> userid | character varying(40) | not null
> username | character varying(64) |
>
> I want to get all the distinct first character of all usernames. And do
> it in a way that is the most portable to MS SQL server.
>
> Is there anyway?
Looking through the documentation on string functions would be helpful.
An example solution is:
select distinct substring(username from 1 for 1) from users;
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