Some RDBMSs provide an LPAD() and RPAD() function that enables us to left pad or right pad a string. Some functions also allow us to add leading or trailing zeros numbers.
Below are examples of applying SQL padding in some of the more popular RDBMSs.
Continue readingSometimes you might find that the amount of text returned in a database column is too long. You might just want to return a short snippet of that text, followed by an ellipsis or three dots.
Fortunately, this is relatively easy to do in MariaDB.
Continue readingThis article presents two ways to insert a new line character into a string in SQLite.
This means you can have some text on one line, more text on another line, etc, rather than it being one long line.
Continue readingIf you ever find yourself wanting only the first part of a string, or the last part of it, this article might help.
This article is specific to SQL Server, but the functionality is pretty common across most/all database management systems, not to mention most programming languages.
When working with SQL Server, you can use theT-SQL LEFT() and RIGHT() functions to return any given number of characters from the left or right of a string.