String Functions The fourth and last category of new T-SQL functions is String Functions, containing two new functions. Like other categories discussed here, this category provides functions that ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

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 ...

Therefore, columns with primitive data and columns filled with JSON data live side by side. Unless the new functions of SQL Server 2016 are used, the JSON columns are treated as plain text fields and ...

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.