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I want to truncate a column to a max of 100 characters. How do you do this in SQL Server?
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SELECT LEN(column_name) FROM table_name; And you can use SUBSTRING or SUBSTR() function go get first three characters of a column.
SQL Server LEFT() Function The LEFT() function extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from left).
SUBSTRING ( MyColumn, 1 , 1 ) for the first character and SUBSTRING ( MyColumn, 1 , 2 ) for the first two. Select First two Character in selected Field with Left (string,Number of Char in int)
If you search the first char of string in Sql string SELECT CHARINDEX('char', 'my char') => return 4 Share Follow edited May 11 '16 at 15:07 Emilio Gort 3,43233 gold badges2828 silver badges4343 bronze badges answered Mar 7 '12 at 14:07 LittleJCLittleJC
The SELECT TOP clause is used to specify the number of records to return. The SELECT TOP clause is useful on large tables with thousands of records. Returning a large number of records can impact performance. Note: Not all database systems support the SELECT TOP clause.
Select First two Character in selected Field with Left(string,Number of Char in int) SELECT LEFT(FName, 2) AS FirstName FROM dbo.NameMaster
Try this:
SELECT LEFT (your_column, 100) FROM your_table
Edit:
you can also try something like this:
SELECT LEFT (your_column, LEN(your_column)-5) FROM your_table
for say if you want to trim the last 5 characters from a record.
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You can also use the LEFT() function.
LEFT(col, 100)
SUBSTRING(myColumn, 1, 100)
See the docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187748.aspx
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