Round Natural Numbers to the nearest Power of 10
An ITVF function that rounds a number to the nearest Power of 10
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-05)
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Equivalent Oracle's INSTR Function in SQL server
Oracle Built in Function INSTR is a great function if you wish to locate a string or a subset of string in the nth place.
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-04)
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Function - Word count in a sentence
The function (Inline function) is used to determine the word count in a textual/string input.
* Compatible from SQL Server 2012 and up.
2016-11-11 (first published: 2016-11-04)
486 reads
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