I suppose I'm starting to develop a mild if somewhat exasperated affection for SQL Server, but then something like this comes along and annoys me all over again.  It's ludicrous...

Here's a function which will extract the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or whatever number string, optionally with a length greater than whatever you specify (say you only want strings which are...

good article, sounds like it was valuable, if difficult experience.  I spent years on DB2 before getting (accidentally) into SQL Server (and sometimes feel like I've been downgraded from a...