T-SQL substring - separating first and last name

Question

I have a column which has FirstName and LastName together. I\'m writing a report to separate the FirstName And LastName. How do I get the FirstName and LastName separated in

Answer 1

The easiest way I can find to do it is:

SELECT 
  SUBSTRING(FullName, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', FullName) - 1) AS FirstName,
  REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(FullName), 1, CHARINDEX(' ', REVERSE(FullName)) - 1)) AS LastName
FROM
  [PERSON_TABLE]