18 Aug 2022 Tihomir Babic An Overview of SQL Text Functions in Google BigQuery Data analysts and Google BigQuery go hand in hand. Google's cloud data warehouse presents you with plenty of opportunities for using standard SQL text functions you can't avoid in your day-to-day work as a data analyst. BigQuery uses Google Standard SQL, an ANSI-compliant SQL dialect. This means you can use standard SQL text functions in BigQuery without needing to learn a variant of a given function. The Standard SQL Functions course is an excellent resource for learning those functions. Read more 7 Jul 2022 Tihomir Babic An Overview of SQL Text Functions in MySQL Do you work in MySQL as a data analyst? Then you should know how to use its text functions – data analysts don’t work only with numbers. Reporting requires computations, data classification, and label creation, and you can do all of that in MySQL. In this article, I’ll explain several of the most common and useful MySQL text functions by discussing what they do and showing how they do it. Read more 23 Jun 2022 Tihomir Babic An Overview of Microsoft SQL Server Text Functions Data analysts use text values when creating SQL reports. You can create your own labels with functions, classify rows based on text value, or do computations based on it. This article covers how to do all that. The text values in databases are not just for reading. As with numeric values, we perform operations on them and manipulate the text. SQL Server has a fair number of text functions. Read more 22 Mar 2022 Tihomir Babic The SQL Substring Function in 5 Examples Working with text data in SQL? We explain how to get values from any point in a string. When you think of working with data in SQL, your first thought is probably a database full of numbers and your SQL code doing very fancy calculations. But text is data, too! It’s very common to find text data in databases. Not only do you have to extract it, but often you also have to manipulate it. Read more