What is the MS SQL Server capability similar to the MySQL FIELD() function?

Question

MySQL provides a string function named FIELD() which accepts a variable number of arguments. The return value is the location of the first argument in the list of the remai

Answer 1

ORDER BY CHARINDEX(','+convert(varchar,status)+',' ,   
  ',rejected,active,submitted,approved,')


just put a comma before and after a string in which you are finding the substring index or you can say that second parameter.

and first parameter of charindex is also surrounded by ,