ON SUBSTRING (ERR.FIRSTNAME,1,3) = SUBSTRING (DEM.FIRSTNAME,1,3) --NOTE- IT WILL ONLY TRY TO MATCH 1ST 3 CHARACTER ON BOTH TABLES AND THAT WILL BE THE SAME --NOTE- IT WILL HELP BCZ PEOPLES NAME'S ...

Is it possible to order by a substring in a returned field?<BR>I've got a query which returns at most probably around 10 or so rows of 1 column. However the way this data is formated, it'd be convient ...

So I was handed a VERY complex script simply to turn into a pipe delimited file. The problem is that I cant seem to trim anything that used substring. for example I have tried all of these with no ...