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Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The
values in name column i want to modity.
Requirement : Keep only once space between two words
(Fname,Lname) in the Name column.
For this what is the query? Please answer me. Advance
Thanks.


Name No Address Reference

manoj kumar
kumar raja
vinzay kumar
rajendra prasad
gowri nath -- -- --

Question Posted / manojkumar

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Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The values in name column i want to modity. R..

Answer / kavitha n

SELECT NAME,
( SUBSTR (NAME, 1, (INSTR (NAME, ' ', 1)))
|| ''
|| SUBSTR (NAME, INSTR (NAME, ' ', -1), LENGTH (NAME))
) output
FROM test;

Is This Answer Correct ?    5 Yes 2 No

Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The values in name column i want to modity. R..

Answer / lince

select substring(NAME,1,charindex(' ',NAME))+' '+
replace(substring(NAME,charindex(' ',NAME),len(NAME)),' ','')
as NAME from test

Is This Answer Correct ?    1 Yes 0 No

Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The values in name column i want to modity. R..

Answer / kalyan

update test set NAME=regexp_replace(NAME,'( ){2,}', ' ')

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Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The values in name column i want to modity. R..

Answer / manojkumar

Thanks to Kavitha and Lince.
Both answers are correct in oracle and in Sql Server.
Excellent
Thanks a lot

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Like shown below i have 3 columns(Name,No,Address). The values in name column i want to modity. R..

Answer / swastik

select substr(name,1,instr(name,' ',1)-1)||substr(name,instr(name,' ',-1),length(name)) from spacename

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