Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest.

You can use SQL to create, modify, search, and display database information. Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements.

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

Oracle SQL string functions have included the Soundex function for a long time. Soundex is a phonetic normalization function that was invented for the 1880 U.S. Census to get around the problem of ...

In this article, I’ll show you how to combine two string functions, MID () and FIND () to solve the problem of parsing structurally inconsistent data. I’m using Microsoft 365, but these ...