almost identical, only some fucntion names are different:
--SUBSTR(TARGET_ID,6,INSTR(SUBSTR(TARGET_ID,6,LENGTH(TARGET_ID)),'.',(-1))-1
SELECT SUBSTRING(TARGET_ID,6,CHARINDEX(SUBSTRING(TARGET_ID,6,LEN(TARGET_ID)),'.',(-1))-1)
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