Question

I have a column that contains links. The problem is that the titles of the links are in the same column, so it looks like this:
linktitle|-|linkurl
I want link title and linkurl in separate columns.
I’ve created a new column for the urls, so I’m looking for a way to extract them and update the linkurl column with them. Is there any clever way to construct a query that does this?

Answer 1

UPDATE TableName 
SET LinkTitle = Substring(LinkColumn, 0, InStr(LinkColumn, '|-|') - 1),
LinkUrl = Substring(LinkColumn, InStr(LinkColumn, '|-|') + 3)

With LinkColumn being the currently existing column, and LinkTitle & LinkUrl being where you want to store the separated data.