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.
2019-08-13 (first published: 2019-08-04)
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This creates a Tally or Numbers table which is frequently used to replace loops in code and is much faster than most loops.
2011-11-28 (first published: 2008-03-07)
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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 […]
2004-03-14
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