SQL Server 2016 introduces substantial new capabilities that promise to advance organizations to manage data for business intelligence and analytics.

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 ...

Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation.