Functions in SQL Server:

Practical Guide
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction of Functions in SQL Server 2005

1.1 Built-in Functions

2 String Functions

2.1 LEN (string)

2.2 LTRIM (string)

2.3 RTRIM (string)

2.4 LEFT (string, length)

2.5 RIGTH (string, length)

2.6 SUBSTRING (string, start, length)

2.7 REPLACE (search, find, replace)

2.8 REVERSE (string)

2.9 CHARINDEX (find, search [, start])

2.10 PATINDEX (find, search [, start])

2.11 LOWER (string)

2.12 UPPER (string)

2.13 SPACE (integer)

3 Numeric Functions

3.1 ROUND (number, length, [function])

3.2 ISNUMERIC(expressions)

3.3 ABS (number)

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 3.4 CEILING (number)

3.5 FLOOR (number)

3.6 SQUARE (float_number)

3.7 SQRT (float_number)

3.8 RAND ([seed])

4 Date/Time Functions

4.1 GetDate ()

4.2 GETUTCDATE()

4.3 DAY (date)

4.4 MONTH (date)

4.5 YEAR (date)

4.6 DATENAME (datepart, date)

4.7 DATEPART(datepart, date)

4.8 DATEADD (datepart, number, date)

4.9 DATEDIFF (datepart, startdate, enddate)

4.10 ISDATE (expression)

5 More Functions

5.1 CASE

5.2 COALESCE

5.3 ISNULL

5.4 GROUPING

5.5 ROW_Number()

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5.6 RANK ()

5.7 DENSE_RANK ()

5.8 NTILE (integer_expression)

5.9 ISNUMERIC

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Introduction of Functions in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server built-in functions are either deterministic or nondeterministic. Functions are
deterministic when they always return the same result any time they are called by using a
specific set of input values. Functions are nondeterministic when they could return different
results every time they are called, even with the same specific set of input values.

Functions that take a character string input and return a character string output use the collation
of the input string for the output. Functions that take no character inputs and return a character
string use the default collation of the current database for the output. Functions that take
multiple character string inputs and return a character string use the rules of collation
precedence to set the collation of the output string

In this Book I am going to explain about some SQL Server 2005 functions with examples. A
function performs an operation and returns a value. A function consists of the function name,
followed by a set of parenthesis that contains any parameter or arguments required by the
function. If a function requires two or more arguments you can separate them with commas.

Here are going to discuss about some string functions, numeric functions and date/time
functions.

Note - I am using my own database table for examples. See database table in figure 1.

Figure 1.

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String Functions
1. LEN (string) - Returns the number of characters of the specified string expression,
excluding trailing blanks.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

Select LEN('Raj'), LEN('Raj ') FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

LEN doesn't count length of spaces. So result looks like this.

2. LTRIM (string) - LTRIM function to return a character expression after removing

leading spaces.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

SELECT LTRIM(' Raj')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

Go

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 3. RTRIM (string) - RTRIM function to return a character expression after removing
trailing spaces.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

Select RTRIM('Raj ')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

4. LEFT (string, length) - Returns the specified number of characters from the
beginning of the string.

Example:

use Vendor

SELECT VendorFName, VendorLName, LEFT(VendorFName, 1) + LEFT (VendorLName, 1) AS

Initials FROM Vendor

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 5. RIGTH (string, length) - Returns the specified number of characters from the end
of the string.

Example:

use Vendor

SELECT VendorFName, VendorLName, RIGHT(VendorFName, 1) + RIGHT (VendorLName, 1) AS

Initials FROM Vendor

6. SUBSTRING (string, start, length) - Returns the specified number of characters

from the string starting at the specified position.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

SELECT SUBSTRING('beniwal', 2, 2) FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO
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7. REPLACE (search, find, replace) - Returns the search string with all occurrences
of the find string replaced with the replace string.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

SELECT REPLACE('Beniwal', 'Beniwal', 'Choudhary')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

8. REVERSE (string) - Returns the string with the character in reverse order.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

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use Vendor

SELECT REVERSE('Raj')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

9. CHARINDEX (find, search [, start]) - Returns an integer that represents the

position of the first occurrence of the find string in the search string starting at the
specified position. If the starting position isn't specified, the search starts at the
beginning of the string. If the staring isn't found, the functions returns zero.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

SELECT CHARINDEX('w', 'Beniwal')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

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10. PATINDEX (find, search [, start]) - PATINDEX is useful with text data types; it
can be used in a WHERE clause in addition to IS NULL, IS NOT NULL, and LIKE (the
only other comparisons that are valid on text in a WHERE clause). If either pattern
or expression is NULL, PATINDEX returns NULL when the database compatibility
level is 70. If the database compatibility level is 65 or earlier, PATINDEX returns
NULL only when both pattern and expression are NULL.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

SELECT PATINDEX('%Krew%', VendorLName)

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorId=5

GO

11. LOWER (string) - Returns the string converted to lowercase letters.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

SELECT LOWER('Raj')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

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12. UPPER (string) - Returns the string converted to uppercase letters.

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

SELECT UPPER('Raj')

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

13. SPACE (integer) - Returns the string with the specified number of space
characters (blanks).

Example:

use Vendor

GO

use Vendor

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SELECT VendorFName + ',' + SPACE(2) + VendorLName

FROM VENDOR WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

Numeric Functions
1 ROUND (number, length, [function]) - Returns the number rounded to the precision specified
by length. If length is positive, the digits to the right of the decimal point are rounded. If it's
negative the digits to the left of the decimal point are rounded. To truncate the number rather
than round it code a non zero value for function.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

--Used Round the estimates

SELECT ROUND(123.9994, 3), ROUND(123.9995, 3)

--Use ROUND and rounding approximations

SELECT ROUND(123.4545, 2), ROUND(123.45, -2)

--Use ROUND to truncate

SELECT ROUND(150.75, 0), ROUND(150.75, 0, 1)

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GO

2 ISNUMERIC(expressions) - Returns a value of 1 (true) if the expression is a

numeric value; returns a values of 0 (false) otherwise.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT IsNumeric(VendorId) FROM Vendor

SELECT ISNumeric(VendorFName) FROM Vendor

GO

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3 ABS (number) - Returns the absolute value of number.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT ABS(-1.0), ABS(0.0), ABS(1.0)

GO

4 CEILING (number) - Returns the smallest integer that is greater than or equal to
the number.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO
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SELECT CEILING($123.45),CEILING($-123.45), CEILING($0.0)

GO

5 FLOOR (number) - Is an expression of the exact numeric or approximate numeric

data type category, except for the bit data type.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT FLOOR(123.45), FLOOR(-123.45), FLOOR($123.45)

GO

6 SQUARE (float_number) - Returns the square of the given expression.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

DECLARE @h float, @r float

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SET @r = 1

SELECT PI()* SQUARE(@r)* @h AS 'Cyl Vol'

GO

7 SQRT (float_number) - Returns a square root of a floating-point number.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

DECLARE @myvalue float

SET @myvalue = 1.00

WHILE @myvalue < 10.00

BEGIN

SELECT SQRT(@myvalue)

SELECT @myvalue = @myvalue + 1

END

GO

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8 RAND ([seed]) - Returns a random float value from 0 through 1.

Seed

Is an integer expression (tinyint, smallint, or int) that specifies the seed value. If seed is
not specified, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 assigns a seed value at random. For a given
seed value, the result returned is always the same.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

DECLARE @counter smallint

SET @counter = 1

WHILE @counter < 5

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 BEGIN

SELECT RAND() Random_Number

SET NOCOUNT ON

SET @counter = @counter + 1

SET NOCOUNT OFF

END

GO

Date/Time Functions

1 GetDate () - Returns the current system date and time in the Microsoft SQL Server
standard internal format for date time values.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT GetDate()
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2 GETUTCDATE() - Returns the current UTC date and time based on the system's
clock and time zone setting. UTC (Universal Time Coordination) is the same as
Greenwich Mean Time.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT GETUTCDATE()

GO

3 DAY (date) - Returns the day of the month as an integer.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT DAY('03/12/1998') AS 'Day Number'

GO
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4 MONTH (date) - Returns the month as an integer.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT "Month Number" = MONTH('03/12/1998')

SELECT MONTH(0), DAY(0), YEAR(0)

GO

5 YEAR (date) - Returns the 4-digit year as an integer.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT "Year Number" = YEAR('03/12/1998')

GO
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6 DATENAME (datepart, date) - Returns an integer representing the specified date part of the
specified date.

Example:

USE Vendor

GO

SELECT DATENAME(month, getdate()) AS 'Month Name'

GO

7 DATEPART(datepart, date)

Is the parameter that specifies the part of the date to return? The table lists date
parts and abbreviations recognized by Microsoft SQL Server.

Datepart Abbreviations

year yy, yyyy

quarter qq, q

month mm, m

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dayofyear dy, y

day dd, d

week wk, ww

weekday dw

hour hh

minute mi, n

second ss, s

millisecon ms
d

The week (wk, ww) datepart reflects changes made to SET DATEFIRST. January 1 of any year
defines the starting number for the week datepart, for example: DATEPART(wk, 'Jan 1, xxxx') =
1, where xxxx is any year.

The weekday (dw) datepart returns a number that corresponds to the day of the week, for
example: Sunday = 1, Saturday = 7. The number produced by the weekday datepart depends on
the value set by SET DATEFIRST, which sets the first day of the week.

Date

Is an expression that returns a datetime or smalldatetime value, or a character string in a date

format. Use the datetime data type only for dates after January 1, 1753. Store dates as
character data for earlier dates. When entering datetime values, always enclose them in
quotation marks. Because smalldatetime is accurate only to the minute, when a smalldatetime
value is used, seconds and milliseconds are always 0.

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 If you specify only the last two digits of the year, values less than or equal to the last two digits
of the value of the two digit year cutoff configuration option are in the same century as the
cutoff year. Values greater than the last two digits of the value of this option are in the century
that precedes the cutoff year. For example, if two digit year cutoff is 2049 (default), 49 is
interpreted as 2049 and 2050 is interpreted as 1950. To avoid ambiguity, use four-digit years.

For more information about specifying time values, see Time Formats. For more information
about specifying dates, see datetime and smalldatetime.

Example :
USE Vendor

GO

SELECT GETDATE() AS 'Current Date'

SELECT DATEPART(month, GETDATE()) AS 'Month Number'

SELECT DATEPART(m, 0), DATEPART(d, 0), DATEPART(yy, 0)

GO

8 DATEADD (datepart, number, date) - Returns the date that results from adding
the specified number of datepart units to the date.

Example -

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GO

SELECT DATEADD(day, 21, PostedDate) AS timeframe FROM Vendor

GO

9 DATEDIFF (datepart, startdate, enddate) - Returns the number of datepart

units between the specified start date and end date.

Example:
USE Vendor

GO

SELECT DATEDIFF(day, posteddate, getdate()) AS no_of_days

FROM Vendor WHERE VendorFName='Raj'

GO

10 ISDATE (expression) - Returns a value of 1(true) if the expression is a valid

date/time value; returns a value of 0(false) otherwise.

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Example:
USE Vendor

GO

DECLARE @datestring varchar(8)

SET @datestring = '12/21/98'

SELECT ISDATE(@datestring)

GO

More Functions

1 CASE - Evaluate a list of conditions and returns one of multiple possible return expressions.

CASE has two formats:

The simple CASE function compares an expression to a set of simple expressions to

determine the result.

The searched case function evaluates a set of boolean expressions to determine the
result.

Syntax:

Simple CASE function:

CASE input_expression

WHEN when_expression THEN result_expression

[...n]

[
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 ELSE else_result_expression

END

Searched CASE function:

CASE

WHEN Boolean_expression THEN result_expression

[...n]

ELSE else_result_expression

END

Example:

use Vendor

GO

SELECT VendorId, VendorFName, VendorLName,

CASE VendorId

WHEN 1 THEN 'This is vendor id one'

WHEN 2 THEN 'This is vendor id two'

WHEN 3 THEN 'This is vendor id three'

WHEN 4 THEN 'This is vendor id four'

WHEN 5 THEN 'this is vendor id five'

END AS PrintMessage

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FROM Vendor

2 COALESCE - Returns the first nonnull expression among its arguments.

Syntax:

COALESCE (expression [...n])

Example:

use Vendor

GO

SELECT PostedDate, COALESCE(PostedDate, '1900-01-01') AS NewDate

FROM Vendor

3 ISNULL - Replaces NULL with the specified replacement value.

Syntax:

ISNULL (check_expression, replacement_value)

Example:

use Vendor

GO

SELECT PostedDate, ISNULL(PostedDate, '1900-01-01') AS NewDate

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FROM Vendor

GO

4 GROUPING - Is an aggregate function that causes an additional column to be

output with a value of 1 when the row is added by either the CUBE or ROLLUP
operator, or 0 when the row is not the result of CUBE or ROLLUP.Grouping is allowed
only in the select list associated with a GROUP BY clause that contains either the
CUBE or ROLLUP operator.

Syntax: GROUPING (column_name)

Example -

Use Vendor

GO

SELECT royality, SUM(advance) 'total advance', GROUPING(royality) 'grp'

FROM advance

GROUP BY royality

WITH ROLLUP

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5 ROW_Number() - Returns the sequential number of a row within a partition of a
result set, starting at 1 for the first row in each partition

Syntax: ROW_NUMBER ( ) OVER ([<partition_by_clause>] <order_by_clause>)

Note: The ORDER BY in the OVER clause orders ROW_NUMBER. If you add an ORDER
BY clause to the SELECT statement that orders by a column(s) other than 'Row
Number' the result set will be ordered by the outer ORDER BY.

Example:

Use Vendor

GO

SELECT VendorFName, VendorLName,

ROW_Number() Over(ORDER BY PostedDate) AS 'Row Number'

FROM Vendor

GO

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6 RANK () - Returns the rank of each row within the partition of a result set. The rank of a row is
one plus the number of ranks that come before the row in question.

Syntax: RANK ( ) OVER ([< partition_by_clause >] < order_by_clause >)

Arguments: < partition_by_clause >

Divides the result set produced by the FROM clause into partitions to which the RANK function is
applied. For the syntax of PARTITION BY, see OVER Clause (Transact-SQL).

< order_by_clause >

Determines the order in which the RANK values are applied to the rows in a partition. For more
information, see ORDER BY Clause (Transact-SQL). An integer cannot represent a column when
the < order_by_clause > is used in a ranking function.

Example:

Use Vendor

GO

SELECT VendorId, VendorFName, VendorLName,

RANK() Over(PARTITION BY PostedDate ORDER BY VendorId) AS 'RANK'

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FROM Vendor ORDER BY PostedDate DESC

GO

7 DENSE_RANK () - Returns the rank of rows within the partition of a result set,
without any gaps in the ranking. The rank of a row is one plus the number of distinct
ranks that come before the row in question.

Syntax: DENSE_RANK ( ) OVER ([< partition_by_clause >] < order_by_clause >)

Arguments: < partition_by_clause >

Divides the result set produced by the FROM clause into partitions to which the DENSE_RANK
function is applied. For the syntax of PARTITION BY, see OVER Clause (Transact-SQL).

< order_by_clause >

Determines the order in which the DENSE_RANK values are applied to the rows in a partition. An
integer cannot represent a column in the <order_by_clause> that is used in a ranking function.

Example :

Use Vendor
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SELECT VendorId, VendorFName, VendorLName,

DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY PostedDate ORDER BY VendorId) AS 'DENSE RANK'

FROM Vendor ORDER BY PostedDate DESC

GO

NTILE (integer_expression) - Distributes the rows in an ordered partition into a

specified number of groups. The groups are numbered, starting at one. For
each row, NTILE returns the number of the group to which the row belongs.

Syntax: NTILE (integer_expression) OVER ([<partition_by_clause>] < order_by_clause >)

Arguments: integer_expression

Is a positive integer constant expression that specifies the number of groups into which each
partition must be divided? integer_expression can be of type int, or bigint.

Note: integer_expression can only reference columns in the PARTITION BY clause.

integer_expression cannot reference columns listed in the current FROM clause.

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<partition_by_clause>

Divides the result set produced by the FROM clause into partitions to which the RANK function is
applied. For the syntax of PARTITION BY, see OVER Clause (Transact-SQL).

< order_by_clause >

Determines the order in which the NTILE values are assigned to the rows in a partition. For more
information, see ORDER BY Clause (Transact-SQL). An integer cannot represent a column when
the <order_by_clause> is used in a ranking function.

Example :

Use Vendor

GO

SELECT VendorFName, VendorLName,

NTILE(4) OVER(PARTITION BY PostedDate ORDER BY VendorId DESC) AS 'Quartile'

FROM Vendor

GO

STUFF : It works like replace

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select empname,STUFF(empname,4,3,'f') from EmpDetails

Result:
empname (New)

jagatheesan jagfeesan

prabhakar prafkar

sibi sibf

Rajesh Rajf

siva sivf

null nulf
ISNUMERIC: This function Returns 1 if the value are numeric & zero when values are not
numeric.

EXAMPLE :

select ISNUMERIC(name) from Employee

Result
new
0
0
0

Summary

In this book we have learned the some important functions like Built-in functions in Sql Server of
Miscellaneous functions. Where we have seen the Rank, Dense rank methods.

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