Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The
values in name column i want to modity.
Requirement : Keep only once space between two words
(Fname,Lname) in the Name column.
For this what is the query? Please answer me. Advance
Thanks.
Name No Address Reference
manoj kumar
kumar raja
vinzay kumar
rajendra prasad
gowri nath -- -- --
Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback
Answer / kavitha n
SELECT NAME,
( SUBSTR (NAME, 1, (INSTR (NAME, ' ', 1)))
|| ''
|| SUBSTR (NAME, INSTR (NAME, ' ', -1), LENGTH (NAME))
) output
FROM test;
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 2 No |
Answer / lince
select substring(NAME,1,charindex(' ',NAME))+' '+
replace(substring(NAME,charindex(' ',NAME),len(NAME)),' ','')
as NAME from test
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / kalyan
update test set NAME=regexp_replace(NAME,'( ){2,}', ' ')
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 1 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / manojkumar
Thanks to Kavitha and Lince.
Both answers are correct in oracle and in Sql Server.
Excellent
Thanks a lot
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
Answer / swastik
select substr(name,1,instr(name,' ',1)-1)||substr(name,instr(name,' ',-1),length(name)) from spacename
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 0 No |
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