SQL MID () function
The MID () function
MID () function is used to extract characters from a text field.
SQL MID () syntax
SELECT MID(column_name,start[,length]) FROM table_name;
| 参数 | 描述 |
|---|---|
| column_name | 必需。要提取字符的字段。 |
| start | 必需。规定开始位置（起始值是 1）。 |
| length | 可选。要返回的字符数。如果省略，则 MID() 函数返回剩余文本。 |
The demo database
In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.
The following is a selected "Websites" table data:
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | id | name | url | alexa | country | +----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | 1 | Google | https://www.google.cm/ | 1 | USA | | 2 | 淘宝 | https://www.taobao.com/ | 13 | CN | | 3 | 本教程 | http://www.w3big.com/ | 4689 | CN | | 4 | 微博 | http://weibo.com/ | 20 | CN | | 5 | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3 | USA | | 7 | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ | 0 | IND | +----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
SQL MID () examples
The following SQL statement to extract the first four characters from the "Websites" table "name" column:
Examples
SELECT MID(name,1,4) AS ShortTitle
FROM Websites;
FROM Websites;
Execute the above SQL output results are as follows:
