title: How to select only the characters appearing before a specific symbol in a SQL Select statement
body: <p>I have strings in a database like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>firstname.lastname@email.com/IMCLientName
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I only need the characters that appear before the @ symbol.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to find a simple way to do this in SQL.</p>