Brian Kelley

Brian Kelley is an author, columnist, and Microsoft SQL Server MVP focusing primarily on SQL Server security. He is a contributing author for How to Cheat at Securing SQL Server 2005 (Syngress), Professional SQL Server 2008 Administration (Wrox), and Introduction to SQL Server (Texas Publishing). Brian currently serves as an infrastructure and security architect. He has also served as a senior Microsoft SQL Server DBA, database architect, developer, and incident response team lead.
  • Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology

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Strange String Splits

When I run this code, how many rows are returned? 

DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食'
DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食'
SELECT value
FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s)
GO

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