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How BIT_LENGTH() Works in MariaDB

April 4, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, BIT_LENGTH() is a built in string function that returns the length of the given string argument in bits.

You provide the string as an argument when you call the function.

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How BIN() Works in MariaDB

April 3, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, BIN() is a built in string function that returns a string representation of the binary value of the given longlong (i.e. BIGINT) number.

You provide the longlong number when you call the function.

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How COLLATION() Works in MariaDB

April 3, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, COLLATION() is a secondary built in function that returns the collation of a given string.

We provide the string when we call the function.

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Categories MariaDB Tags collation, functions, string functions

How CHAR() Works in MariaDB

March 31, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, CHAR() is a built-in string function that returns characters based on their code values.

CHAR() accepts one or more integers. It then returns a string consisting of the characters given by the code values of those integers.

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How CHR() Works in MariaDB

March 31, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, CHR() is a built-in string function that returns a character based on the code values provided as an argument.

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How ORD() Works in MariaDB

March 30, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, ORD() is a built-in string function that returns the numeric character code of the leftmost character of its string argument.

The ORD() function can handle multi-byte characters. This is in contrast to the ASCII() function, which only handles single-byte (8 bit) characters.

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How ASCII() Works in MariaDB

March 30, 2021 by Ian

In MariaDB, ASCII() is a built-in string function that returns the numeric ASCII value of the leftmost character of its string argument.

The ASCII() function only works on 8 bit characters. To get the code for multi-byte characters, use the ORD() function instead.

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Get the Right Part of a String in SQL Server (T-SQL)

February 16, 2021 by Ian

In SQL Server, you can use the RIGHT() function to extract the right part of a string.

It works exactly the same as the LEFT() function (which returns the left part of a string), except that it returns the right part of the string.

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Categories SQL Server Tags how to, mssql, string functions, t-sql

Get the Left Part of a String in SQL Server (T-SQL)

February 16, 2021 by Ian

In SQL Server, you can use the LEFT() function to extract the left part of a string.

It works exactly the same as the RIGHT() function (which returns the right part of a string), except that it returns the left part of the string.

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Examples of Formatting ‘datetimeoffset’ in SQL Server using Standard Format Strings (T-SQL)

January 28, 2021August 24, 2020 by Ian

I thought it would be interesting to run a few quick queries to see how various formatting strings affect the formatting of date/time values.

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Categories SQL, SQL Server Tags date format, date functions, dates, mssql, string functions, t-sql
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