Posted by Yas on 09/17/07 19:53

On 17 Sep, 13:32, Yas <yas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I have the following table with 4 columns....
>
> firstname, lastname1, lastname2, EMAIL
>
> Table has user names and email, I would like to generate a 5th column
> called DisplayName.
> The email Id is sometimes firstname.lastname1.lastname2@ and others
> just firstname.lastname1@
>
> I would like to generate the display name exactly like the email eg
> firstname.lastname1.lastname2@ displayName = firstname lastname1
> lastname2......so for james.smith display name = James Smith and for
> james.earl.smith displayName = James Earl Smith etc etc
>
> Is there a way that I can check/compare email Id (before the @ part)
> with firstname, lastname1 and lastname2 and generate a display name
> based on what was used for the email address?


By the way is this even possible in MS SQL? :-)

Cheers
Yas

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