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string-functions-transact-sql.md

All built-in string functions except `FORMAT` are deterministic. This means they return the same value any time they are called with a specific set of input values. For more information about function ...
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string-functions-transact-sql.md

The following scalar functions perform an operation on a string input value and return a string or numeric value: :::row::: :::column::: ASCII:::column-end ...
Visual Studio Magazine

A CLR Alternative to the SQL Server ISNUMERIC function

Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused by an unexpected result from the SQL Server ISNUMERIC() function. I was using SQL Server 2008 R2 but the issue has long been ...
TechRepublic

Sorting character strings using SQL Server

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. You are probably familiar ...
Visual Studio Magazine

10 More New T-SQL Functions

Building on the DATETIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIME2FROMPARTS offers similar functionality, but yields more precise DateTime2 data type, containing fractions of a second to a specified precision. Naturally, ...
Analytics Insight

Frequently Used SQL Functions in Data Analysis

SQL is a tool that is widely used in the manipulation of data and featuring in the relational database. They are applied in querying, manipulating as well as reporting data and it is commonly used by ...