Split value from one field to two

Question

I\'ve got a table field membername which contains both the last name and the first name of users. Is it possible to split those into 2 fields memberfirst<

Answer 1

In MySQL this is working this option:

SELECT Substring(nameandsurname, 1, Locate(' ', nameandsurname) - 1) AS 
       firstname, 
       Substring(nameandsurname, Locate(' ', nameandsurname) + 1)    AS lastname 
FROM   emp