Which are the different character-manipulation functions in SQL?

  • CONCAT: join two or more values together.
  • SUBSTR: used to extract the string of specific length.
  • LENGTH: return the length of the string in numerical value.
  • INSTR: find the exact numeric position of a specified character.
  • LPAD: padding of the left-side character value for right-justified value.
  • RPAD: padding of right-side character value for left-justified value.
  • TRIM: remove all the defined character from the beginning, end or both beginning and end.
  • REPLACE: replace a specific sequence of character with other sequences of character.