The generate SQL was SUBSTRING([m].[Code], 0, 1) which returns an empty string instead of returning the first character. When playing with the generated SQL query and changing it to ...

Is it possible to order by a substring in a returned field?I've got a query which returns at most probably around 10 or so rows of 1 column. However the way this data is formated, it'd be convient ...

Seems that the T-SQL supports what I'm trying to do, but whatever SQL crystal is using doesn't like the expression I'm using for the substring length. If I hard-code the substring length it works ...

Commented by: @mrotteveel I have updated the ticket with a corrected version of the requirements when using SUBSTRING with a start position smaller than 1; I initially incorrectly stated that it ...

In this paper, we tackle a novel type of interesting queries - shortest unique substring queries. Given a (long) string S and a query point q in the string, can we find a shortest substring containing ...