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  • September 21, 2012 at 6:20 am

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    saltpepo (9/21/2012)

    Hello,

    I need to count repeating alphabet only

    a=6 thats it.

    well, 'f' repeats as well in your example.

    the easiest way for the count is simply

    SELECT LEN(@asd) - LEN(REPLACE(@asd,'a',''))

    Lowell

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