Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/20/05 00:06

Stu (stuart.ainsworth@gmail.com) writes:
> You can drive yourself nuts doing string manipulation in SQL; you are
> far better off leaving string maniupulation to the business object or
> presentation layer, rather than trying to bubble up from the bottom.

Depends on what you want to do. Some things are easy to do in T-SQL. But
admittedly it easily becomes cluttered and complex, and some stuff is
about impossible.




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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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