TSQL Challenge 45 - Evaluate mathematical expressions presented using
This challenge involves evaluating mathematical expressions presented using Roman Numerals and return the result of each expression.
2010-12-13
1,679 reads
Jacob Sebastian
TSQL Challenge 44 – Identify products that belong to each unique color
The first part of your job is to identify the unique color combinations of products and the second part is to identify the products that have the given color combination.
2010-11-29
1,360 reads
TSQL Challenge 43 – Identifying incomplete segments and missing elemen
This challenge involves writing a logic to identify incomplete segments and missing elements in an electronic data integration file exchanged between two applications.
2010-11-16
856 reads
TSQL Challenge 42 – Transform rows to columns with dynamic positioning
This challenge involves writing a logic to change the column position of values in the output based on the presence and absence of other values on each output row.
2010-11-01
2,840 reads
TSQL Challenge 41 - Extract email addresses from text data
This challenge involves extracting email addresses from a table that contains text data downloaded from various websites.
2010-10-18
2,255 reads
TSQL Challenge 40 - Convert string representation of numeric values fr
This challenge involves converting numeric values from binary format to hexadecimal format.
2010-10-04
1,651 reads
TSQL LAB 2 - Writing Conditional WHERE Clauses
Jacob Sebastian takes a look at some different ways to write your WHERE clauses. A good basic article for those starting to work with T-SQL.
2010-07-30 (first published: 2008-02-27)
81,485 reads
XML Workshop 26 – SELECT * FROM XML
This article presents a generic function that makes it easy to query XML documents
2010-06-30
12,292 reads
XML Workshop 25 - Inserting elements and attributes to an XML document
This article from MVP Jacob Sebastian looks at the modify method for changing an XML document.
2010-03-18
10,288 reads
Getting started with SQL Azure
The cloud services from Microsoft for SQL Server are known as SQL Azure. MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us a introductory article about how to work with this service.
2009-10-22
9,678 reads
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I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
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