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.
Tame Those Strings! Part 2 - Using CHARINDEX
The second part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SQL Server 2022 Build List
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2022. There are other build lists available here. A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here, please let the webmaster know (webmaster at sqlservercentral.com). All builds are listed in reverse […]
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers