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Split Function equivalent in tsql?

I have @FirstLastName = ‘First Last’.

I need to split string in two variables @FirstName and @LastName.

In @FirstName goes ‘First’.

In @LastName goes ‘Last’.

Answer 1

This should do the trick but it’s only a quick hack (SQL Fiddle):

SET @FirstName = substring(@FirstLastName
                         , 1
                         , charindex(' ', @FirstLastName)-1)

SET @LastName = substring(@FirstLastName
                        , charindex(' ', @FirstLastName)
                        , 999)

-- if you want to calculate the actual @LastName length,
-- replace 999 with len(@FirstLastName)-charindex(' ', @FirstLastName)+1

For a more elegant and robust way see Split function equivalent in T-SQL?.