From: Glenn Davy <glenn@tangelosoftware.net>
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: another simple SQL question
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:02:46 +1000
Message-ID: <200706260202.46681.glenn@tangelosoftware.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467FDF28.8000108@joshuaneil.com>
References: <467FDF28.8000108@joshuaneil.com>
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:28:40 am Joshua wrote:
> Ok here is another simple question from a novice....
>
> Here is what my table looks like
>
> firstname lastname fullname
> ---------- ---------- -----------
> smith, john
> green, susan
> white, jeff
>
>
> How can I break the fullname field into firstname lastname fields so it
> looks like the following:
>
> firstname lastname fullname
> --------- --------- ---------
> john smith smith, john
> susan green green, susan
> jeff white white, jeff
>
> Please let me know. Sorry for such simple novice questions, I appreciate
> your support.
>
update yourtable set firstname= substring(fullname,1,position(',' in
fullname)-1) ,lastname= substring(fullname, position(', ' in fullname)+2,
char_length(fullname));
glenn
> THANKS!
>
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