Sorting SQL by first two characters of fields

Question

I\'m trying to sort some data by sales person initials, and the sales rep field is 3 chars long, and is Firstname, Lastname and Account type. So, Bob Smith would be BS* and

Answer 1

You haven't said what DBMS you are using. The following would work in Oracle, and something like them in most other DBMSs

1) where sales_rep like 'BS%'

2) where substr(sales_rep,1,2) = 'BS'