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Asked: 2026-06-10T09:34:05+00:00

How to find all the starting alphabets in a table row name. names allan

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How to find all the starting alphabets in a table row name.

names
allan
brain
chris
chap
charlie
rosy
ram
dude

output
a
b
c
r
d
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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the builtin SUBSTRING function and the DISTINCT to return different results (no duplicates)

    SELECT DISTINCT LOWER(SUBSTRING(names, 1,1)) x
FROM t
ORDER BY x;

    MySQL: SUBSTRING

    SQLFiddle Demo

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