Functions for Manipulating Data in SQL Server 

Welcome to this course!

Working with different types of data

Storing dates in a database

Types of character strings

Implicit conversion

Implicit conversion between data types

Data type precedence

Explicit conversion

CASTing data

CONVERTing data

Working with the correct data types

Functions that return system date and time

Get the know the system date and time functions

Selecting parts of the system's date and time

Functions returning date and time parts

Extracting parts from a date

Generating descriptive date parts

Presenting parts of a date

Creating a date from parts

Performing arithmetic operations on dates

Arithmetic operations with dates

Modifying the value of a date

Calculating the difference between dates

Validating if an expression is a date

Changing the date format

Changing the default language

Correctly applying different date functions

Functions for positions

Calculating the length of a string

Looking for a string within a string

Looking for a pattern within a string

Functions for string transformation

Changing to lowercase and uppercase

Using the beginning or end of a string

Extracting a substring

Replacing parts of a string

Functions manipulating groups of strings

Concatenating data

Aggregating strings

Splitting a string into pieces

Applying various string functions on data

Aggregate arithmetic functions

Learning how to count and add

MINimizing and MAXimizing some results

Analytic functions

Accessing values from the next row

Accessing values from the previous row

Getting the first and last value

Mathematical functions

Extracting the sign and the absolute value

Rounding numbers

Working with exponential functions

Manipulating numeric data

Wrapping things up