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

Answer 2

This should work.

SELECT SUBSTRING([Name], 0, CHARINDEX(' ', [Name], 0)) [FirstName],
       SUBSTRING([Name], CHARINDEX(' ', [Name], 0) + 1, LEN([Name])) [LastName]

EDIT:

SELECT SUBSTRING([Name], 0, CHARINDEX(' ', [Name], 0)) [FirstName],
       SUBSTRING([Name], CHARINDEX(' ', [Name], 0) + 1, LEN([Name])) [LastName] 
FROM
(
    SELECT 'Ned Stark' [Name] UNION 
    SELECT 'Tyrion Lannister' [Name] UNION
    SELECT 'Daenerys Targaryen' [Name] UNION
    SELECT 'Robert Baratheon' [Name]
) n

Just replace the part after from with you table and the column [Name] with you column.