I have a table with fullname column. I want to make a query for finding a person via his last name but his last name is in the full name column.
Would it matter if it accidentally returned someone whose first name matched your query?
A simple query would be:
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE fullname LIKE '%insertlastname%'
If you want to define the last name as the name after the last space:
SELECT substring_index(fullname, ' ', -1) as lastname
FROM TABLE
WHERE lastname='insertlastname'
Two suboptimal answers, but some answers at least.
enter code here You can use this if you want to fetch by query:
SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX( `fullname` , ' ', 2 ),' ',1) AS b,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX( `fullname` , ' ', -1 ),' ',2) AS c FROM `users` WHERE `userid`='1'
But you can also try by PHP to fetch last name. You just use explode function to fetch last name.
Exm:
$full_name = "row moin";
$pieces = explode(" ", $fullname);
echo $first_name = $pieces[0]; // row
echo $last_name = $pieces[1]; // moin
A simple answer for this is like this suppose we have a name
Charles Dickens
:
SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME WHERE SUBSTRING_INDEX(FULLNAME,' ',-1) like '%Dickens';
I would want to switch 2 words (firstName lastName) in a mysql row's fields
example :
I have a column 'persons' with a field :
Jonh Smith
I would want to switch to : Smith Jonh
I searched a lot for a MySQL function or snippet but found no way.
Try this update if the field has only two words
UPDATE tablename
SET persons = CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(persons, ' ', 2), ' ', -1),' ',
SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(persons, ' ', 1), ' ', -1))
Currently I'm working on a database redesign project. A large bulk of this project is pulling data from the old database and importing it into the new one.
One of the columns in a table from the old database is called 'name'. It contains a forename and a surname all in one field (ugh). The new table has two columns; forenames and surname. I need to come up with a clean, efficient way to split this single column into two.
For now I'd like to do everything in the same table and then I can easily transfer it across.
3 columns:
Name (the forename and surname)
Forename (currently empty, first half of name should go here)
Surname (currently empty, second half of name should go here)
What I need to do: Split name in half and place into forename and surname
If anyone could shed some light on how to do this kind of thing I would really appreciate it as I haven't done anything like this in SQL before.
Database engine: MySQL
Storage engine: InnoDB
A quick solution is to use SUBSTRING_INDEX to get everything at the left of the first space, and everything past the first space:
UPDATE tablename
SET
Forename = SUBSTRING_INDEX(Name, ' ', 1),
Surname = SUBSTRING_INDEX(Name, ' ', -1)
Please see fiddle here. It is not perfect, as a name could have multiple spaces, but it can be a good query to start with and it works for most names.
Try this:
insert into new_table (forename, lastName, ...)
select
substring_index(name, ' ', 1),
substring(name from instr(name, ' ') + 1),
...
from old_table
This assumes the first word is the forename, and the rest the is lastname, which correctly handles multi-word last names like "John De Lacey"
For the people who wants to handle fullname: John -> firstname: John, lastname: null
SELECT
if( INSTR(`name`, ' ')=0,
TRIM(SUBSTRING(`name`, INSTR(`name`, ' ')+1)),
TRIM(SUBSTRING(`name`, 1, INSTR(`name`, ' ')-1)) ) first_name,
if( INSTR(`name`, ' ')=0,
null,
TRIM(SUBSTRING(`name`, INSTR(`name`, ' ')+1)) ) last_name
It works fine with John Doe. However if user just fill in John with no last name, SUBSTRING(name, INSTR(name, ' ')+1)) as lastname will return John instead of null and firstname will be null with SUBSTRING(name, 1, INSTR(name, ' ')-1).
In my case I added if condition check to correctly determine lastname and trim to prevent multiple spaces between them.
This improves upon the answer given, consider entry like this "Jack Smith Smithson", if you need just first and last name, and you want first name to be "Jack Smith" and last name "Smithson", then you need query like this:
-- MySQL
SELECT
SUBSTR(full_name, 1, length(full_name) - length(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', -1)) - 1) as first_name,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', -1) as last_name
FROM yourtable
Just wanted to share my solution. It also works with middle names. The middle name will be added to the first name.
SELECT
TRIM(SUBSTRING(name,1, LENGTH(name)- LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(name, ' ', -1)))) AS firstname,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(name, ' ', -1) AS lastname
I had a similar problem but with Names containing multiple names, eg. "FirstName MiddleNames LastName" and it should be "MiddleNames" and not "MiddleName".
So I used a combo of substring() and reverse() to solve my problem:
select
SystemUser.Email,
SystemUser.Name,
Substring(SystemUser.Name, 1, instr(SystemUser.Name, ' ')) as 'First Name',
reverse(Substring(reverse(SystemUser.Name), 1, instr(reverse(SystemUser.Name), ' '))) as 'Last Name',
I do not need the "MiddleNames" part and maybe this is not the most efficient way to solve it, but it works for me.
Got here from google, and came up with a slightly different solution that does handle names with more than two parts (up to 5 name parts, as would be created by space character). This sets the last_name column to everything to the right of the 'first name' (first space), it also sets full_name to the first name part. Perhaps backup your DB before running this :-) but here it is it worked for me:
UPDATE users SET
name_last =
CASE
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 1)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN ''
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 2)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -1)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 3)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -2)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 4)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -3)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 5)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -4)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 6)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -5)
ELSE ''
END,
full_name = SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 1)
WHERE LENGTH(name_last) = 0 or LENGTH(name_last) is null or name_last = ''
SUBSTRING_INDEX didn't work for me in SQL 2018, so I used this:
declare #fullName varchar(50) = 'First Last1 Last2'
declare #first varchar(50)
declare #last varchar(50)
select #last = right(#fullName, len(#fullName)-charindex(' ',#fullName, 1)), #first = left(#fullName, (charindex(' ', #fullName, 1))-1);
Yields #first = 'First', #last = 'Last1 Last2'
I have an InnoDB table with fields
firstname, lastname
While displaying names, usually only firstname is enough. Sometimes users have the same first name; so I have to get firstname and first letter of lastname:
CONCAT(firstname, ' ', SUBSTRING(lastname, 1, 1), '.')
Is there a (performant) way to only display the first letter of the last name in case of a double first name? Something like
WHEN isDouble(Firstname) THEN
CONCAT(firstname, ' ', SUBSTRING(lastname, 1, 1), '.')
ELSE firstname
/* edit */
Forgot to mention the solution I was thinking of:
Creating a column 'double_firstname', with value 1 or 0, and use a CASE statement to select. Then update the double_firstname column on user create and delete.
You can of course ask mysql if the number of entries for that firstname is bigger than one, so:
select IF( (select count(*) as cnt from person where firstname = p.firstname) > 1
, concat(firstname, " ", substring(lastname, 1))
, firstname)
from person
where id = 4711
;
But that is not very quick.
Better for a higher number of persons is a stable mark on person how to "call" her. That could be "firstname lastname" initially and then get more personally with reducing to firstname by a cronjob. It also could mean to call "John Doe" just John, because he entered early, and "John DaSecond" call "John D.", and "JohnDaThird" call "John DaT.".
JohnD is not unique in that scenario.
Is John Doe informed about being renamed to "John D." in your Scenario?
You asked for good performance as well as the ability to do it. If you have an index on names(firstname, lastname) the following should perform well:
select (case when exists (select 1
from names n2
where n2.firstname = n.firstname and n2.lastname <> n.lastname
)
then concat(firstname, ' ', left(lastname, 1))
else firstname
end)
from names n
I would like to rewrite a number of user id which is splited by "-" between text and number. For example:
KT-12345
BA-98765
CC-98765
ITA-87987
From a huge amount of data which is mixed up with text and number. For example:
KT98798
CC94788
BB87600
So the question is : I would like to make the user id from the 2nd examples into the first one. How to achieve it in MySQL. Please suggest.
SELECT
CASE
WHEN floor(substr(name, 3,1)) > 0
THEN CONCAT_WS('-', SUBSTRING(name, 1, 2), SUBSTRING(name, 3, LENGTH(name)))
ELSE CONCAT_WS('-', SUBSTRING(name, 1, 3), SUBSTRING(name, 4, LENGTH(name)))
END AS new_name
FROM test
No "SELECT" data but UPDATE:
UPDATE `table` SET field = REPLACE(field, '-', '');
here an example how to use it in php
$str = 'abc123';
preg_match('#([a-z]*)(\d*)#', $str, $match);
echo 'alpha: ' . $match[1];
echo 'num: ' . $match[2];?>