Jeff Moden

  • Interests: SQL. When Im not having fun with that, then SQL. ;-)

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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Many people have published high performance, read-less, Inline Table Valued functions that use Itzik Ben-Gan's wonderful "Virtual Numbers Table" to replace WHILE loops and other forms of RBAR. This one is Jeff Moden's version.

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2019-08-13 (first published: )

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Difference between dates with thousands separators

This function calculates the time difference between 2 datetimes and displays the results in the following format:H,HHH,HHH:MM:SSThe return is a 15 character field that is left padded with spaces so that the field becomes right justified.  This makes the colons line up for easy reading.  Commas are automatically added as thousands separators as needed by […]

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