• I modified your code to make it more useful.

    DECLARE @s-2 NVARCHAR(MAX)

    DECLARE @result INT

    DECLARE @count_me NVARCHAR(MAX)

    /*

    The string to be searched.

    */

    SET @s-2 = '1101001001110101'

    /*

    The character to be counted.

    */

    SET @count_me = '00'

    /*

    Replace the character to be counted with empty string,

    and subtract the lengths.

    */

    SET @result = (LEN(@s) - LEN(REPLACE(@s,@count_me,'')) )/LEN(@count_me)

    /*

    Do something with the result

    */

    PRINT @result