RE: a very tricky string extraction

[Jay Blanchard]

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01/01/05 SG Reviewed this
12/15/03 DSD Reviewed that 
10/24/02 EWW Worked on that and tested this then stop to do something
else
05/02/01 AW Did something
08/31/98 DSD Tested this
07/22/97 EWW Worked on that and did something 
 
I need a Select statement that returns the Date for the first occurance
of the 'Tested this' substring
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That is a bad way to keep a date, but try....I am not sure you can use
MIN here...NOT TESTED

SELECT MIN(SUBSTRING(myField, 1, 8)) FROM myTable;
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With the WHERE condition of course....