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UDF: Estimating the size of a table

In database planning and design it is essential to plan out how much HD space you are going to need to store your data. If you use BOL and do a search for "Estimating Table Size" you get three articles: - Estimating the size of a table - Estimating the size of a table with […]

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2006-06-21 (first published: )

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Technical Article

UDF: Parse a delimited list of paramters

After replying to a post today I thought I'd share this with all.This is a user defined function that I use to return a table of parameters passed in a parameter string. Function UsageSelect * From dbo.fnParseParamString ([@ParamString='Delimited String of parmaters'],[@Delimeter='Delimiting Character'])Lets say you are concatenating a list of form data from a web page […]

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2006-06-13 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Getting ANY of the data

I have this data in two tables:

-- Beer table
BeerIDBeerNamebrewer
5Becks    Interbrew
6Fat Tire   New Belgium
7Mac n Jacks  Mac & Jack's Brewery
8Alaskan AmberAlaskan Brewing 
9Kirin        Kirin Brewing

-- Beercount table
BeerName      BottleCount
Becks         5
Fat Tire      1
Mac n Jacks   2
Alaskan Amber 4
NULL          7
Corona        2
Tsing Tao     4
Kirin         12
What is returned from this query?
SELECT *
FROM dbo.BeerCount AS bc
WHERE bc.BeerName=ANY
  (SELECT b2.BeerName FROM dbo.Beer AS b2);
 

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