How to get first two characters of a string in oracle query

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Suppose I have a column name OrderNo with value AO025631 in a table shipment   I am trying to query the table so that I can get only first two character of column value i e  AO   Can I do this in the SQL query itself

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Easy   SELECT SUBSTR OrderNo  1  2  FROM shipment

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Try select substr orderno  1 2  from shipment

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SUBSTR  documentation    SELECT SUBSTR OrderNo  1  2  As NewColumnName from shipment   When selected  it s like any other column  You should give it a name  with As keyword   and you can selected other columns in the same statement   SELECT SUBSTR OrderNo  1  2  As NewColumnName  column2      from shipment

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take a look here  SELECT SUBSTR  Take the first four characters   1  4  FIRST FOUR FROM DUAL

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select substr orderno 1 2  from shipment    You may want to have a look at the documentation too

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Just use SUBSTR function  It takes 3 parameters  String column name  starting index and length of substring   select SUBSTR OrderNo  1  2  FROM shipment

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