How to find the occurence of characters using sql server

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how to find the occurence of characters using sql server

please send the query for the above question.

Place chennai

output as n as repetition of 2.

i want the above output.

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Narasiman P

Posted 28-Jun-12 20:39pm

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_Amy · Answer 1 · 2012-06-28T21:04:00

Solution 1

Hi,

Here you go:

SQL

declare @string varchar(100)
select @string = 'sfdasadhfasjfdlsajflsadsadsdadsa'
SELECT LEN(@string) - LEN(REPLACE(@string, 'd', '')) AS D_Count

All the best
--Amit

Posted 28-Jun-12 21:04pm

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AshishChaudha 29-Jun-12 4:55am

my 5!

_Amy 29-Jun-12 4:56am

Thank you Ashish.

Sebastian T Xavier · Answer 2 · 2012-06-28T21:09:00

Hi,

Please try these links

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/08/16/sql-server-finding-the-occurrence-of-character-in-string/[^]

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic784777-338-1.aspx#bm785495[^]

http://www.dbforums.com/microsoft-sql-server/976098-count-specific-characters-string.html[^]

http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=144340[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1860457/how-to-count-instances-of-character-in-sql-column[^]

Regards
Sebastian