Next on the list of new T-SQL functions is TRY_PARSE. The function syntax is TRY_PARSE (string_value AS data_type [USING culture]). This is similar to the PARSE function, except that it returns NULL ...

After my post about Encrypting Rich Text fields in Power Apps that store ... I’ve now implemented both the encryption and ...

Let’s take a detailed look at these functions, one by one. The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within ...

Snowflake wants to reduce enterprises’ reliance on data engineers and data scientists for unstructured data analysis with its ...

Unless the new functions of SQL Server 2016 are used, the JSON columns are treated as plain text fields and can be queried only with T-SQL string and text instructions such as LIKE, SUBSTRING and TRIM ...

Customers will be able to interact with their database using natural language thanks to the new text-to-SQL function in DBHawk, a database access tool developed by Datasparc. The company also ...

organizations use complex and high-end text analytics solutions for simple SQL text search, such as “prefix,” “suffix” and “contains” functions,” explains Ori Reshef, Varada’s vice president of ...