Just want to have first name only

[samuel123]

Greetings All,
Once again back to this forum.

I have got a problem and hope to get solution.

Senario..
I have a table called users, it has following fields
user_name firstname lastname
---------------- -------------- -------------
Parker Alan & Jenny Parker


I have exported data to user table and my user data is in user_name field
and first name field is blank

Want to Achieve: Parker Alan & Jenny which is in user_name field and I want to achieve only first name as Parker in firstname field using some update command(Just shown above )

How can I achieve this?
Your help would be greately appreciated
Samuel

[samuel123]

Just found a little way..

Did this way

update users set firstname=substr(user_name,1,7)

Above query got nearly correct result

Pearson
Allie

Some are like this
Bobsol L

Now my question in Bobsol L Now I want to remove white space and L charcter

Thanks

[amitpatel66]

Just found a little way..

Did this way

update users set firstname=substr(user_name,1,7)

Above query got nearly correct result

Pearson
Allie

Some are like this
Bobsol L

Now my question in Bobsol L Now I want to remove white space and L charcter

Thanks

Try This:

 
update users set firstname=substr(user_name,1,INSTR(first_name,' ')-1);
 
 

[samuel123]

Hi,
Thank you so much for your response. That has helped me.


Once again thank you for your kind help
Samuel

[amitpatel66]

Hi,
Thank you so much for your response. That has helped me.


Once again thank you for your kind help
Samuel

You are Welcome :)

Do post back in case of any issues.

Amit