SQL Server - HTML to TEXT

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[HTMLtoText] (@HTMLText VARCHAR(MAX))

RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX) AS

BEGIN

DECLARE @Start INT

DECLARE @End INT

DECLARE @Length INT

SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText) SET @End = CHARINDEX('>',@HTMLText,CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText)) 

SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1 WHILE @Start > 0

AND @End > 0

AND @Length > 0

BEGIN

SET @HTMLText = STUFF(@HTMLText,@Start,@Length,'')

SET @Start = CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText) SET @End = CHARINDEX('>',@HTMLText,CHARINDEX('<',@HTMLText))

SET @Length = (@End - @Start) + 1

END

  RETURN LTRIM(RTRIM(@HTMLText))

END

GO

Command to Test:

SELECT dbo.HTMLtoText('<h1>Everything is possible, nothing is <span style="color: red"><b>impossible.</b> </span>:)</h1>')