How to count the number of times a character appears in a SQL column?

Question

For a user logging table I have in a SQL database, I track the some of the parameters off of a report request. The report allows multiple ID\'s to be passed to it and I sto

Answer 1

It seems the quick and dirty way to answer the question you've been asked would be to do this:

select 
    count(*) as cnt
FROM 
    [table]
WHERE 
    RequestedReportParams Like '%,%,%'