PATINDEX (Azure Stream Analytics)
Updated: April 22, 2016
Applies To: Azure
Returns the starting position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a specified expression, or 0 if the pattern is not found, on all valid nvarchar(max) data types.
Syntax
PATINDEX ( '%pattern%' , expression )
pattern
A character expression that contains the sequence to be found. Wildcard characters can be used; however, the % character must come before and follow pattern (except when searching for first or last characters). pattern is an expression of the character string data type category. pattern is limited to 8000 characters.
expression
An expression, typically a column that is searched for the specified pattern. Where the expression is of the nvarchar(max) data type.
bigint
SELECT TollId, EntryTime, LicensePlate, PATINDEX ( ‘%100%’,LicensePlate ), FROM Input TIMESTAMP BY EntryTime
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