declare @TargetStr varchar(8000), 
@SearchedStr varchar(8000), 
@Occurrence int
set @TargetStr='a'
set @SearchedStr='abbabba'
set @Occurrence=3;

WITH Occurrences AS (
SELECT Number,
       ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Number) AS Occurrence
FROM master.dbo.spt_values
WHERE Number BETWEEN 1 AND LEN(@SearchedStr) AND type='P'
  AND SUBSTRING(@SearchedStr,Number,LEN(@TargetStr))=@TargetStr)
SELECT Number
FROM Occurrences
WHERE Occurrence=@Occurrence

while (@counter < @Occurrence) 

while (@counter < @Occurrence) and @pos <> 0

DECLARE @TXT varchar(255)
SET @TXT = 'Michael Williamson'
SELECT dbo.CHARINDEX2('l',@TXT,1)
SELECT dbo.CHARINDEX2('l',@TXT,2)
SELECT dbo.CHARINDEX2('l',@TXT,4)
SELECT dbo.CHARINDEX2('l',@TXT,6)