When I was writing this blog post I had a hard time to come up with the title of the blog post so I did my best to come up with one. Here is the reason why? I wrote a blog post earlier SQL SERVER – Find First Non-Numeric Character from String. One of the questions was that how that blog can be useful in real life scenario. This blog post is the answer to that question. Let us first see a problem.
SQL SERVER – Find First Non-Numeric Character from String
It is fun when you have to deal with simple problems and there are no out of the box solution. I am sure there are many cases when we needed the first non-numeric character from the string but there is no function available to identify that right away. Here is…
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SQL SERVER 2012 – String Function CONCAT() – A Quick Introduction
In SQL Server 2012, there are two new string functions being introduced, namely: CONCAT(), FORMAT(). In this blog post we are going to learn about String Function CONCAT(). CONCAT takes a minimum of two arguments to concatenate them, resulting to a single string.
SQL SERVER – Concat Function in SQL Server – SQL Concatenation
Earlier this week, I was delivering Advanced BI training on the subject of “SQL Server 2008 R2”. I had a great time delivering the session. During the session, we talked about SQL Server 2012 Denali. Suddenly one of the attendees suggested his displeasure for the product. He said, even though,…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Get Numeric Value From Alpha Numeric String – Get Numbers Only
I have earlier wrote article about SQL SERVER – Get Numeric Value From Alpha Numeric String – UDF for Get Numeric Numbers Only and it was very handy tool for me. Recently blog reader and SQL Expert Christofer has left excellent improvement to this logic. Here is his contribution. He…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Function to Retrieve First Word of Sentence – String Operation
I have sent of function library where I store all the UDF I have ever written. Recently I received email from my friend requesting if I have UDF which manipulate string and returns only very first word of the statement. Well, I realize that I do not have such a…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Finding the Occurrence of Character in String
This article is written in response to provide hint to TSQL Beginners Challenge 14. The challenge is about counting the number of occurrences of characters in the string. Here is quick method how you can count occurrence of character in any string. Here is quick example which provides you two…
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