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Thread: Removing middle initials

  1. #1
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    Removing middle initials

    For this query there are many first and last names with some having middle initials with a '.' at the end.

    Current result:
    Hong, Amy L.
    Jackson, Yuri K.
    Nguyen, Roy


    Desired:
    Amy Hong
    Yuri Jackson
    Roy Nguyen

    How can I achieve this with SQL Plus?
    Thanks.

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    Search for second space in the name using INSTRING function, and use the character position to get substring of name.


    select substr(name,1,instr(name,' ',2))
    from table

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