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91. String Data

Understand how SQL stores and works with text and character data.

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String data represents text values such as names, addresses, departments, product descriptions, and email addresses. SQL provides different character data types and functions for storing and manipulating text.

Business databases contain a large amount of text information. Analysts frequently need to search, clean, combine, format, and analyze text values.

An Employees table may store EmployeeName, Department, City, and Email as string values.

SQL 
SELECT
    EmployeeName,
    Department
FROM Employees;

String data is used throughout customer records, employee databases, product catalogs, addresses, financial systems, and operational applications.

  • String data represents text.
  • Names and addresses are common string values.
  • SQL provides character data types.
  • SQL provides many string functions.
  • String operations are important for data cleaning.
What is string data in SQL?

String data represents text or character information stored in database columns.

Give examples of string data.

Names, addresses, departments, email addresses, product names, and descriptions are examples of string data.

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