1.
ASCII
Returns the ASCII code value of the leftmost character of a character expression.
Syntax: ASCII ( character_expression )
Arguments : character_expression Is an expression of the type char or varchar.
2. CHAR
A string function that converts an int ASCII code to a character.
Syntax: CHAR ( integer_expression )
Arguments :integer_expression. Is an integer from 0 through 255. NULL is returned if
the integer expression is not in this range.
3. CHARINDEX
Returns the starting position of the specified expression in a character string.
Syntax:CHARINDEX ( expression1 , expression2 [ , start_location ] )
Arguments
expression1
Is an expression containing the sequence of characters to be found. expression1 is an expression
of the short character data type category.
expression2
Is an expression, usually a column searched for the specified sequence. expression2 is of the
character string data type category.
start_location
Is the character position to start searching for expression1 in expression2. If start_location is not
given, is a negative number, or is zero, the search starts at the beginning of expression2.
4.DIFFERENCE
Returns the difference between the SOUNDEX values of two character expressions
as an integer.
Syntax: DIFFERENCE ( character_expression , character_expression )
Arguments: character_expression. Is an expression of type char or varchar.
5. LEFT
Returns the part of a character string starting at a specified number of characters
from the left.
Syntax: LEFT ( character_expression , integer_expression )
Arguments:
character_expression
Is an expression of character or binary data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or
column. character_expression must be of a data type that can be implicitly convertible to
varchar. Otherwise, use the CAST function to explicitly convert character_expression.
integer_expression
Is a positive whole number. If integer_expression is negative, a null string is returned.
6. LEN
Returns the number of characters, rather than the number of bytes, of the given string expression,
excluding trailing blanks.
Syntax: LEN ( string_expression )
Arguments: string_expression. Is the string expression to be evaluated.
7.LOWER
Returns a character expression after converting uppercase character data to lowercase.
Syntax: LOWER ( character_expression )
Arguments: character_expression
Is an expression of character or binary data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or
column. character_expression must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
Otherwise, use CAST to explicitly convert character_expression
8. LTRIM
Returns a character expression after removing leading blanks.
Syntax: LTRIM ( character_expression )
Arguments: character_expression
Is an expression of character or binary data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or
column. character_expression must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
Otherwise, use CAST to explicitly convert character_expression.
9. REPLACE
Replaces all occurrences of the second given string expression in the first string expression with
a third expression.
Syntax: REPLACE ( 'string_expression1' , 'string_expression2' , 'string_expression3' )
Arguments
'string_expression1': Is the string expression to be searched. string_expression1 can be of
character or binary data.
'string_expression2': Is the string expression to try to find. string_expression2 can be of
character or binary data.
'string_expression3' : Is the replacement string expression string_expression3 can be of character
or binary data.
10.REVERSE
Returns the reverse of a character expression.
Syntax: REVERSE ( character_expression )
Arguments
character_expression: Is an expression of character data. character_expression can be a
constant, variable, or column of either character or binary data.
11. RIGHT
Returns the part of a character string starting a specified number of integer_expression characters
from the right.
Syntax: RIGHT ( character_expression , integer_expression )
Arguments
character_expression
Is an expression of character data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column of
either character or binary data.
integer_expression
Is the starting position, expressed as a positive whole number. If integer_expression is negative,
an error is returned.
12. RTRIM
Returns a character string after truncating all trailing blanks.
Syntax
RTRIM ( character_expression )
Arguments
character_expression
Is an expression of character data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column of
either character or binary data.
13. SPACE
Returns a string of repeated spaces.
Syntax
SPACE ( integer_expression )
Arguments
integer_expression
Is a positive integer that indicates the number of spaces. If integer_expression is negative, a null
string is returned.
14. STUFF
Deletes a specified length of characters and inserts another set of characters at a specified
starting point.
Syntax
STUFF ( character_expression , start , length , character_expression )
Arguments
character_expression
Is an expression of character data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column of
either character or binary data.
start
Is an integer value that specifies the location to begin deletion and insertion. If start or length is
negative, a null string is returned. If start is longer than the first character_expression, a null
string is returned.
length
Is an integer that specifies the number of characters to delete. If length is longer than the first
character_expression, deletion occurs up to the last character in the last character_expression.
15. SUBSTRING
Returns part of a character, binary, text, or image expression.
Syntax: SUBSTRING ( expression , start , length )
Arguments
expression
Is a character string, binary string, text, image, a column, or an expression that includes a
column. Do not use expressions that include aggregate functions.
start
Is an integer that specifies where the substring begins.
length
Is an integer that specifies the length of the substring (the number of characters or bytes to
return)
16. UPPER
Returns a character expression with lowercase character data converted to uppercase.
Syntax
UPPER ( character_expression )
Arguments
character_expression
Is an expression of character data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column of
either character or binary data.
17. UNICODE
Returns the integer value, as defined by the Unicode standard, for the first character of the input
expression.
Syntax
UNICODE ( 'ncharacter_expression' )
Arguments
'ncharacter_expression'
Is an nchar or nvarchar expression.
