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Fact and Dimension in data modelling

 

SUBSTRING & INSTR in SQL

 Problem:  I have a case where I need to extract the  853-259020- from   853-259020-101  Solution:  SUBSTRING ( "PRTNO" , 1 , INSTR ( "PRTNO" , '-' , 1 , 2 ) ) AS "Part Group" 🔍 Explanation of Each Function: 1. INSTR("PRTNO", '-', 1, 2) This function searches for the position of the second occurrence of the hyphen - in the string "PRTNO" . Parameters : "PRTNO" : The column you're searching in. '-' : The character you're looking for. 1 : Start searching from the first character. 2 : Find the second occurrence. Example : For '853-259020-101' , the second hyphen is at position 11 . 2. SUBSTRING("PRTNO", 1, INSTR(...)) This extracts a substring from "PRTNO" , starting at position 1 (the beginning of the string), and ending at the position of the second hyphen . So, it returns everything up to and including the second hyphen. ✅ Final Output:...