Question

I have a column in my table called display name and the data looks like this John Smith I am looking to see if there is away to split the data like so:

display name as first name => John, display name as last name => Smith

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Assuming MySQL, something like this should work if you always have a single space.

SELECT Substr(name, 1, Instr(name, ' ')) as FirstName,
   Substr(name, Instr(name, ' ')) as LastName
FROM DisplayName

Here is some sample Fiddle that shows you how it works (and when it doesn’t).

Good luck.