how to return truncated field

Hi,
I'd like to select a field of my table and also a truncated version of
that field:
SELECT Field1, Field1_truncated FROM myTable
This field is of type nvarchar. Field1 should contain the entire string
valule whereas Field1_truncated should only contain the first 10
characters of the original field, followed by 3 dots (...)
So I would get this kind of result:
Field1 Field1_truncated
some long string some long ...
Can you help?SELECT Field1, left(Field1,10) + '...' as Field1_truncated FROM myTable
Denis the SQL Menace
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/|||Hi, Samuel
Try something like this:
SELECT Col1,
CASE
WHEN Len(Col1)>13
THEN LEFT(Col1,10)+'...'
ELSE Col1
END as Col1_truncated
FROM YourTable
Razvan|||Brilliant.
Thanks to you guys !