Comments on: RegexReplace in SQL Server http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2009/04/23/regexreplace-in-sql-server/ babblings of a computer loving fool Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick Steele http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2009/04/23/regexreplace-in-sql-server/comment-page-1/#comment-30991 Patrick Steele Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:58:03 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2009/04/23/regexreplace-in-sql-server/#comment-30991 While it's been a few years since I've used SQL Server in a production environment, I can tell you that I was able to live without this functionality quite easily. Stuff like this would just be done in client code that sends data to the database. And these days, I'd probably be more inclined to keep this stuff out of the database anyway and make it part of my unit tests. Sure, the UDF you wrote could be unit tested, but I'd like to verify that my client code is sending the proper data (ready to be inserted/updated) to the database. Then again, I'm getting old too... :) While it’s been a few years since I’ve used SQL Server in a production environment, I can tell you that I was able to live without this functionality quite easily. Stuff like this would just be done in client code that sends data to the database.

And these days, I’d probably be more inclined to keep this stuff out of the database anyway and make it part of my unit tests. Sure, the UDF you wrote could be unit tested, but I’d like to verify that my client code is sending the proper data (ready to be inserted/updated) to the database.

Then again, I’m getting old too… :)

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