Question

I have an SQL Server stored procedure which reads from a csv using SSIS and populates data in different tables in SQL Server 2008.

The issue that I have is that in the csv, I have a column called name, which I pass into the variable @name but this name has first and last name separated by a space.

Sample value:

@name = 'sullivian white'

However, this single variable value has to be saved into the database under two columns, named firstname and last name.

How can I extract the data? Is there a way to use substring to split this variable?

Answer 1

You can use substring and charindex

declare @name varchar(50)
set @name = 'sullivian white'

select
  substring(@name, 1, charindex(' ', @name)-1),
  substring(@name, charindex(' ', @name)+1, len(@name))