2014-12-04 (first published: 2014-11-17)
1,424 reads
William Talada
- Interests: non-dualism
2013-07-03 (first published: 2013-06-07)
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ASCII Character Groups in String
Powerful function to find strings containing or excluding classes of ASCII characters.
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Find botched constraints, idxs, fks
Shows awesome view of columns with constraints and indexes and foreign keys to spot errors fast.
2010-08-04 (first published: 2009-12-03)
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IsNumber fails cast while IsBigInt passes cast
IsNumber does weak checking and fails cast to BigInt so I wrote IsBigInt to replace it.
2010-06-11 (first published: 2010-05-05)
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Display Rows Vertically or Alphabetically
Display a row vertically when a table has hundreds of columns to avoid scrolling.
2010-01-21 (first published: 2009-12-30)
3,326 reads
datetime precision
Accuracy and precision go hand-in-hand. This script helps trim date values to whatever size is stored in a table's column.
2010-01-20 (first published: 2009-12-21)
1,505 reads
Implementing Most Recently Used Lookups
This script will adapt ordering of look-up lists by foreign key usage.
2010-01-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
978 reads
Validate Deployed Databases by Version
Save all object definitions to a single stored procedure for easy validation
2010-01-14 (first published: 2009-12-18)
782 reads
2010-01-07 (first published: 2009-12-18)
1,723 reads
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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