On Mar 14, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Joshua wrote:
Hi,
Here is a quick and easy one I have a questions about:
I have a table (customers) that has a field (firstname) with the
following data.
firstname
--------------------
Mike H
Josh
Jim B
Katie I
Jeff
Suzy
John R
Can someone provide the syntax for a SQL UPDATE statement that will
remove middle initial in the above column and leave the first name
intact?
-- notice there is a space before the .* in the regex
UPDATE table
SET firstname = regexp_replace(firstname, ' .*', '');
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