2011-10-03 (first published: 2008-03-27)
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Robert Cary
- Interests: Sleight of hand magic, cycling, bowling, poker
Search All Columns in all tables
This script will quickly generate DML to search all the tables in the current database for a given string. It could be modified to execute the generated code if desired. If you are running this in a
2007-01-23 (first published: 2007-01-04)
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Find Nth Occurrence of Character Function (Set Based)
This function was originally contributed by other visitors. Below is an example of a set based approach to the problem. This script requires a numbers table (see SqlServerCentral article http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/2547.asp for more details)Please note that this code is uses SQL2005 featuresEnjoy!Robert Caryhttp://tsqlland.blogspot.com
2006-10-20 (first published: 2006-09-18)
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
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