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Selecting data in SQL videos | SQL Queries Part 8 - Calculations with Text

Posted by Andrew Gould on 21 June 2012

SQL Queries Part 8 - Calculations with Text

Learn how to perform calculations with text in Microsoft SQL Server queries. This video teaches you how to create calculated columns in a query involving text, including how to concatenate separate pieces of text into longer strings and how to use functions to split a longer piece of text into separate parts.

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This video has the following accompanying files:

File name	Type	Description
Create Movies Database with Genre Table.sql	SQL query
CreatePeopleDatabase.sql	SQL query
GenerateMoviesDatabase.sql	SQL query
GenerateUpdatedMoviesDatabase.sql	SQL query

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