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PradeepVallabh
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Posted Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:19 PM
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how do we use Regular expressions in T-sql...Do we need to deploy the assemblies to sql server???
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Posted Friday, April 20, 2012 1:56 AM
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I'm sure that SQL Server does not support regular expressions within TSQL; I'd recommend you create a CLR.
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Robin is right, CLR is the way to go.
Example:
Regular Expressions Make Pattern Matching And Data Extraction Easier
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Posted Thursday, July 26, 2012 8:43 AM
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What kinds of patterns you want to search for?
If not complex then you can use some expressions with LIKE clause.
Like if you want to search Canada ZIP codes, which are in following format 'X0X0X0', so for this you can use following query:
WHERE column_name LIKE '[a-zA-Z][0-9][a-zA-Z][0-9][a-zA-Z][0-9]'
Otherwise, like as other said, for complex searches you need CLR.
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T-SQL has a limited regular expression ability in the LIKE predicate extensions. Look them up in Books on Line. Frankly, it has been strong enough for over 90% of the applications I have.
The ANSI Standard SQL has the SIMILAR TO predicate which is based on the POSIX standards. I do not know if MS will catch up
You can use CLR, but then you have to worry about maintaining every possible regular expression tools, since they are all a little different. And then there is a high cost of CLR. Avoid this kludge if you can.
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There are two T-SQL features which support limited regular expression functionality:
LIKE operator and PATINDEX function.
Depends of what you really need it for.
Note, the more complicated operation involved (eg. pattern match and replace), the length of the string and some other factors, then more likely that CLR solution will produce better performance. Also, CLR will allow to use RegEx objects with all available functionality.
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CELKO (9/15/2012)
...And then there is a high cost of CLR. .
Hogwash. There is nothing "high cost" about a well written CLR.
Avoid this kludge if you can.
There's nothing "kludgy" about using a CLR to solve a problem that can't be solved by using T-SQL. Period.
I concur with the previous posters who suggest using a CLR for regular expressions.
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Microsoft invested a huge amount of effort/time/money into CLR to give us tremendous capabilities. I have been told by someone close to the SQL dev team at MS that they are tremendously disappointed by the lack of adoption to the point they significantly curtailed planned efforts to make CLR even more robust. People like CELKO spread misinformation and outright lies about CLR to prevent more widespread adoption. Why they do such a thing is a guess, but I think it has something to do with not wanting to learn new things due to being stuck in the 80's (or 60's as the case may be.) This may seem harsh, but I think it's fantastically unwarranted to lie on a forum that's supposed to help younger developers get the truth about SQL Server.
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Microsoft invested a huge amount of effort/time/money into CLR to give us tremendous capabilities. I have been told by someone close to the SQL dev team at MS that they are tremendously disappointed by the lack of adoption to the point they significantly curtailed planned efforts to make CLR even more robust. People like CELKO spread misinformation and outright lies about CLR to prevent more widespread adoption. Why they do such a thing is a guess, but I think it has something to do with not wanting to learn new things due to being stuck in the 80's (or 60's as the case may be.) This may seem harsh, but I think it's fantastically unwarranted to lie on a forum that's supposed to help younger developers get the truth about SQL Server.
Well said.
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XMLSQLNinja (9/27/2012)
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...And then there is a high cost of CLR. .
Hogwash. There is nothing "high cost" about a well written CLR.
Avoid this kludge if you can.
There's nothing "kludgy" about using a CLR to solve a problem that can't be solved by using T-SQL. Period.
I concur with the previous posters who suggest using a CLR for regular expressions.
As with all else, "It Depends". In the case of RegEx CLR vs Like and PatIndex... if you can actually work it out with Like, PatIndex, or even CharIndex, it will usually be faster than making a call to a RegEx CLR. A couple of us just went through all of this on another thread a couple of months ago and the LIKE expressions blew the doors off the RegEx CLR.
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