Technical Article

Number of words within a phrase function

Most word count functions/procedures are based on some form of looping methods. If the table is large or there is a need to count the words in a number of columns, this can become quite an exercise. This function, based on a mathematical model, will work much faster and more efficient in counting the words […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2005-12-28 (first published: )

269 reads

Technical Article

Table Pivoting revisited

A lot of table pivoting scripts use cursors to reach the  desired results, but SQL scripting was developed to be utilized in a data set environment rather than sequential step-thru scripting.Normally, there are 3 types of Table Pivoting - 1) column explicit 2) column implicit and 3)single column.  COLUMN EXPLICIT will place the row value […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2003-05-29

412 reads

Technical Article

Phone Number Normalization even with literals

The script will do the following:- build a ten digit phone number regardless of input column size.- Ignores extensions- Ignores leading 1, as in 1(800)...- Ignores most special characters or spaces- converts literals to digitsIt can be easily convert to a UDFEnjoy.C. Z. Ovits

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-10-28

559 reads

Technical Article

Table structure in 8 x 11 w/size, rows & indexes

Using the sp_help to get a table structure is very cumbersome.  First, in order to print it you have to use"Results in Text" not "Results in Grid".  Second, the results are very wide screen-wise and very hard to read or print.  Third, you do not get the size or number rows with the same request.This […]

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-10-28

182 reads

Blogs

Creating an Empty Repo in GitHub–#SQLNewBlogger

By

I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure...

Product Review: DataVeil

By

If you’re looking at data masking tools, I recently was able to review the...

The Last Price Bump for the Data Community Summit

By

This week the cost of the PASS Data Community Summit jumps up to full...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Partition Large Tables needed

By sqlguy80

Hello Gurus, I have  a requirement and need to implement the solution quickly. SQL...

Deleting the Standby file

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Deleting the Standby file

If You Build It, Will They Use Linux?

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item If You Build It, Will...

Visit the forum

Ask SSC Logo Ask SSC

SQL Server Q&A from the SQLServerCentral community

Get answers