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String Function
A Beginner’s Guide to SQL String Functions
Get an introduction to many of the many ways you can manipulate and interact with strings using SQL. Read on for more!
2019-12-18
DigitsOnlyEE and AlphaNumericOnly
A nasty fast way to remove non-numeric and non-alphanumeric characters from a string
2019-03-15 (first published: 2016-05-17)
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Translate function for SQL Server
Relational database management systems such as Oracle, Postgres, DB2 and Teradata, as well as other programming languages such as Python, Hive, XSLT and SAS have a Translate function. Now we have one for SQL Server.
2016-06-01 (first published: 2016-05-12)
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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