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Dec 20, 2007

I am trying to populate two fields in my table with the first 6 characters in an existing field with the following command:

SELECT dimension_elist,
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AS BU_Number
SUBSTRING(dimension_jde_pl FROM 1 FOR 6)
AS Acct_Number
FROM JDE_Import

The result is an error:
Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'FROM'.

I am fairly new to SQL so I am probably missing something basic.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

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