Question

I’m using SQL.

In a table tblDemo,one of the column is ‘FileName’. Each row of this column contains a different filename with any extension.
For ex. ‘flower.jpeg’, ‘batman.mov’, study.pdf etc.

Please suggest me on a query which could help me to remove the extension(and dot as well) from each row of the ‘filenames’ column. So that I could fetch only the name Ex. ‘flower’, ‘batman’, ‘study’ etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

try this one out:

UPDATE TableName
SET FileName = REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(FileName), 
                       CHARINDEX('.', REVERSE(FileName)) + 1, LEN(FileName))

View For a DEMO @ SQLFiddle.com