TSQL - How to URL Encode

Question

Looking for a bug free tested sql script that i could use in a UDF to encode a url through sql. Function would take in a URL and pass out a URL Encoded URL. I have seen a few,

Answer 1

Personally I would do this in the application rather than the DB - but if you have to for some reason and you can enable CLR Integration then this would be a perfect candidate for a CLR UDF. It'd be simpler than trying to do it in SQL and probably more reliable and performant too.

There are INET_URIEncode and INET_URIDecode functions in the free version of the SQLsharp T-SQL CLR extension library. It handles Unicode too, though you need the paid version to handle non-standard %uXXYY encoding.