2026-02-04 (first published: 2026-02-03)
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Articles
Tame Those Strings Part 1 - Using SUBSTRING
In this article by Steve Jones, he shows you how to manipulate strings.
2026-02-04 (first published: 2004-04-05)
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Tame Those Strings! Part 10 - Finding Carriage Returns
Expanding on his series of string manipulation in T-SQL, Steve Jones takes a look at how you go about removing those unseen characters from your strings.
2026-02-04 (first published: 2007-02-13)
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Tame Those Strings! Part 2 - Using CHARINDEX
The second part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL.
2026-02-04 (first published: 2002-05-31)
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Tame Those Strings! Part 3 - Using REPLACE
The third part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with REPLACE.
2026-02-04 (first published: 2001-04-18)
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Common SQL Server Problems: Invalid Length
This is another part in my series designed to offer guidance around common issues in SQL Server. Today, let’s talk about the all-too-common error: invalid length.
2026-02-04
Tame Those Strings! Part 4 - Numeric Conversions
The fourth part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with numeric conversions.
2026-02-03 (first published: 2001-04-18)
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Tame Those Strings! Part 5 - Using STUFF
The fifth part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with STUFF.
2026-02-03 (first published: 2001-06-21)
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Tame Those Strings! Part 7 - Proper Casing Strings
Need to proper case names? Want a quick way to reformat a series of words? This article examines a SQL approach to quickly proper casing all words in a field.
2026-02-03 (first published: 2001-10-24)
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Deploying SQL Server Developer Edition in Kubernetes: A Cost-Effective Alternative to RDS
This article shows how you can deploy SQL Server Developer Edition in an AWS Kubernetes configuration.
2026-02-02
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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