Question

I am using the User() to populate a table which returns something like (admin@localhost).

How would I return

1) only the items to the left of the @ (if possible)

and

2) only the first 10 characters (if something like AnnaMariaSmith@localhost, just return AnnaMariaS)

Thanks

Answer 1

Something like this perhaps?

SELECT LEFT(USER(), LOCATE('@',USER()) - 1)

See it in action

If you want only the first 10 characters of the result above, just another LEFT function:

SELECT LEFT(LEFT(USER(), LOCATE('@',USER()) - 1), 10)