Splitting one column into two columns in SQL Server CE

Question

I am doing a project with VS2010 using C#.

I have a local database (.sdf file). Here is the example content of my database:

Column1

Answer 1

You can combine CHARINDEX and SUBSTRING functions. Both of them are supported in CE according to msdn.

Example:

SELECT 
    SUBSTRING(a, 0, CHARINDEX(' ', a)), 
    SUBSTRING(a, CHARINDEX(' ',a) + 1, LEN(a)) 
FROM
    (SELECT 'Random Joe' as a) t