Part 1 of this article introduced four new T-SQL functions available in SQL Server 2012. Part 2 has the rest.

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

Oracle SQL string functions have included the Soundex function for a long time. Soundex is a phonetic normalization function that was invented for the 1880 U.S. Census to get around the problem of ...