MySQL includes a number of built-in string manipulation functions that are similar to the functions provided by Web scripting languages such as PHP. You can use these functions in both the "SELECT" ...

Is it possible to order by a substring in a returned field?<BR>I've got a query which returns at most probably around 10 or so rows of 1 column. However the way this data is formated, it'd be convient ...

So I was handed a VERY complex script simply to turn into a pipe delimited file. The problem is that I cant seem to trim anything that used substring. for example I have tried all of these with no ...