Oracle SUBSTR equivalents for MID, LEFT and RIGHT

Oracle doesn’t have some of the handy short-hand functions that Microsoft has embedded into it’s VB programming languages and into SQL Server but, of course, provides a similar way to return the same result. The key, is Oracle’s SUBSTR() function! In Microsoft’s SQL Server, and in VB, you have the following: MID(YourStringHere, StartFrom, NumCharsToGrab) MID(“birthday”,1,5) […]