Example Search for "mer" in string "Customer", and return position (start in position 3): SELECT CHARINDEX('mer', 'Customer', 3) AS MatchPosition; Try it Yourself » ❮ Previous ❮ SQL Server Functions Next ❯ Track your progress - it's free! Log in Sign Up ...
This example returns the first location of the string is in string This is a string, starting the search from position 4 (the fourth character).SQL Afrita SELECT CHARINDEX('is', 'This is a string', 4); Here is the result set.
This example returns the first location of the string is in string This is a string, starting from position 1 (the first character) of This is a string. SQL Copy SELECT CHARINDEX('is', 'This is a string'); Here is the result set. Copy --- 3 G. Searching from a position ot...
This example shows the return value when CHARINDEX does not find stringstring_patternin the searched string. SQL SELECTTOP(1)CHARINDEX('at','This is a string')FROMdbo.DimCustomer; Here's the result set. --- 0 See also LEN (Transact...
This example shows the return value when CHARINDEX does not find stringstring_patternin the searched string. SQL SELECTTOP(1)CHARINDEX('at','This is a string')FROMdbo.DimCustomer; Here's the result set. --- 0 See also LEN (Transact...
This example returns the first location of the string is in string This is a string, starting from position 1 (the first character) of This is a string. SQL Copy SELECT CHARINDEX('is', 'This is a string'); Here's the result set. Copy --- 3 G. Searching from a position oth...
The following are the SQL Server PATINDEX() function examples. Example 1: Use PATINDEX in a literal string input Let’s consider a simple example of PATINDEX. For example, I want to find the position of the word “example” in the “Wild-card example” input string. To do that, execu...
For a LIKE condition that does not start with a wildcard, SQL Server can perform a partial scan of the index instead of scanning the whole thing. For example, LIKE 'A% can be correctly evaluated by testing only index records >= 'A' and < 'B' (the exact boundary values depend on co...
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The CHARINDEX function finds the position of the expression in another expression. Syntax: select charindex(Exptofind ,Exptosearch ,[Start_Position]) Example 1: select charindex('a','Rakesh') [Position] -- Here 'a' position is 2 select charindex('H','Hello World') [Position] -- ...