Parsing HTML to SQL using SQLDOM
It is simple to parse HTML directly to SQL, manipulate, and render back to HTML using SQLDOM
2019-07-15 (first published: 2012-04-16)
19,215 reads
David Rueter
Rendering PDFs Natively in SQL
How to render PDF documents using SQL CLR. Also a good introduction on creating SQL CLR functions.
2015-08-21 (first published: 2013-05-08)
28,734 reads
SQL for 8-year-old Math…But Be Careful of Implicit Type Conversion
How we can use SQL to solve a math problem published in The Guardian...but with a caution about implicit type conversion.
2015-07-14
7,498 reads
Tracking Database DDL Changes with SQLVer
Presents an open-source T-SQL based version tracking system for MSSQL
2015-01-22
7,870 reads
Dealing with the Evil of FMTONLY from SSRS
SSRS continues to use SET FMTONLY ON even though it has many problems. How can we cope?
2014-12-23
10,537 reads
Deploying CLR Assemblies with T-SQL
Learn how to simplify deployment and maintenance of SQL CLR assemblies by using T-SQL instead of Visual Studio.
2013-05-07
10,913 reads
Geocode Addresses in T-SQL
Geocode, look up postal codes, and perform validation for street address information natively T-SQL
2010-05-19
38,699 reads
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Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers