There are two UDF's included here.The first one will return the number of Years, Months and Days between a Start and End date.The second one will return either Years, Months or Days which makes it much easier to include in a select.If you know of or find a better/faster way to do this, then please […]
2006-08-01 (first published: 2004-09-23)
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In Part 1 of this extensive series, Wes Dumey starts some of the core concepts of data warehousing. In this video he covers what a data warehouse is, why companies use them and what are some of the key components.
2006-07-31
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In this video series, Wes Dumey shows you some of the core basics of data warehousing. Free registration required.
2006-07-28
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One of the responsibilities of the Microsoft.com operations team is to manage the infrastructure that supports the Windows Update and Microsoft Update services, which have client bases in the hundreds of millions and growing. The Windows Update site provides critical updates, security fixes, software downloads, and device drivers for Windows operating systems. Microsoft Update is the service that brings you all the features and benefits of Windows Update.
2006-07-28
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Every DBA needs to know how to do their work under pressure, while facing crisis after crisis. Our most important contribution is to keep the database running. It's an on-call function; you never know what might happen
2006-07-27
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After agreeing on our design goals we began looking for technologies to support them. It turned out that SQL Server™ Service Broker offered the asynchronous messaging support we needed and, since the message-queuing infrastructure is tightly integrated with the SQL Server database engine, our existing database backup, administration, and failover procedures could cover our messaging solution as well.
2006-07-26
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Part 28 of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services series covers the remaining security features intended to protect the confidentiality and integrity of your packages
2006-07-25
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An in-depth, fully explained case study on how to design and create a data access layer for your .NET applications.
2006-07-24
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Create Linked Reports from within SQL Server Management Studio. BI Architect Bill Pearson examines another approach for using Linked Reports to provide multiple "versions" of a single-source report.
2006-07-21
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This function will calcuate the number hours between two dates excluding weekends. This allows for cycle time metrics and anything else requiring only the hours of weekdays.
2006-07-20 (first published: 2004-12-16)
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By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
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I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers