Regular Expressions

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How To Use Regular Expressions for Data Validation and Cleanup

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You need to provide data validation at the server level for complex strings like phone numbers, email addresses, etc. You may also need to do data cleanup / standardization before moving it from source to target. Although SQL Server provides a fair number of string functions, the code developed with these built-in functions can become complex and hard to maintain or reuse.

2011-03-03

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What is Between?

I have a table of products in SQL Server 2022. There are sequential items in the table with ProductIDs of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. If I run this code, how many rows are returned?

SELECT *
FROM dbo.Products
WHERE ProductID
BETWEEN 4 AND 7;

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