Remove last 3 caracters in a view
Hi Guys,
I'm creating a view, in a specific colomn there are 3 values that i want to cut off. The original table can't be changed because of ETL issues.
Here's what i tried:
SELECT
, Left(COLOMN1, LEN (COLOMN1) - 3)
,COLUMN2
,COLUMN3
FROM TABLE1
The query goes for a while and then gives me the error:
Msg 537, Level 16, State 2, Line 4
Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function.
The values in the colomn have various lenghts. I also need the other colomns in that table.. Hope anyone's got a sollution
Your query fails for records where then length of colomn1 is less then 3; the calculation returns a negative value =>
SELECT
,CASE WHEN LEN(COLOMN1) <= 3 OR COLOMN1 IS NULL THEN COLOMN1 ELSE Left(COLOMN1, LEN (COLOMN1) - 3) END
,COLUMN2
,COLUMN3
FROM TABLE1
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