Question

I have a col ProductName in my Select statement which has a String which has a attached string “-Sales” for e.g. peter -Sales. Now I want my result to remove that -Sales and just show peter. How can i do it.I am just pasting my select part of my query as my query has many inner join

SELECT
dbo.Customer.firstName+' '+dbo.Customer.lastName        AS FirstName,
 CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), dbo.Receipt.receiptDate,105)       AS SaleDate,
dbo.Receipt.transactionNumber AS TransactionNumber,
dbo.Receipt.description        AS ProductName,

Answer 1

you can use REPLACE

SELECT REPLACE(dbo.Customer.firstName+' '+dbo.Customer.lastName, '-Sales',''),...
FROM...

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