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Extract 3 characters from a string (starting from right):
SELECT RIGHT('SQL Tutorial', 3) AS ExtractString;The RIGHT() function extracts a number of characters from a string (starting from right).
string, number_of_chars )
Required. The string to extract from number_of_chars Required. The number of characters to extract. If number_of_chars > string, it returns string
SQL Server (starting with 2008), Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Parallel Data Warehouse
Extract 5 characters from the text in the "CustomerName" column (starting from right): SELECT RIGHT(CustomerName, 5) AS ExtractString
FROM Customers;Extract 100 characters from a string (starting from right):
SELECT RIGHT('SQL Tutorial', 100) AS ExtractString;❮ SQL Server Functions