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Working with String Values

Explore how to work with string values in T-SQL using built-in functions. Understand how to find the length of strings, trim whitespace, reverse text, extract substrings, and replace parts of a string. This lesson helps you apply these functions within SELECT statements to manipulate and analyze text data efficiently in Microsoft SQL Server.

T-SQL has many built-in functions that we can use to work with strings and text. Functions can be applied to a single value or to a whole column when selecting. To view the result of a function call, we can use the SELECT statement:

SELECT FUNCTION(Parameter)

Finding the length

We can count the number of characters in a given string value using the LEN() function. The function considers space as a character:

SELECT LEN('Aidil Umarov')
Using the LEN() function to find the length of a string value

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