Millions of users work with SQL to keep the gears of their business turning. In an era marked by relentless digital transformation, the proliferation of AI workloads, and tightening regulatory demands ...

Abstract: In this paper, we tackle a novel type of interesting queries - shortest unique substring queries. Given a (long) string S and a query point q in the string, can we find a shortest substring ...

An Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL system function that returns a portion of a string using a starting position and length. Returns part of a string expression starting at the specified position and of the ...

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I have a column of data with values resembling this: HL7_Result_for_Message_ID_123Q324343.hl7 I need to grab that ID number (in bold), the challenge being that it can be any and all lengths. I have ...

Just wondering if there's a way to improve the accuracy of the SQL Server mode syntax. For example, when running in SQL Server mode, the following syntax is valid: alter table student alter first_name ...