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04-30-04, 10:23

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Just selecting the part of a text field?

I have a select statment that select from a table with a large text field however I would quite like to only select the first 40 characters, is this possible as part of the select statement.

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You can use:

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SELECT Left(textColumn, 40) -- yada, yada, yada

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Great thanks a lot!

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