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Campare Case Insensitive  CampareCaseInsensitive

Case Insensitive Camparison remains a problem for most developers since SQL Server not supports any built in function for these purpose here is one wich compares varchar strings and returns 1 is mathes and 0 other wiseselect dbo.CampareCaseInsensitive('A','a')

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Match Date Only

Here is a simple function to compare datepart of datetime fields , (no need to say ignores hour t,min,sec ... ) isDateMatch(@date1,@date2 ) retruns 1 if the datepart matches else returns 0regardsjohn

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2007-03-21 (first published: )

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Convert Numeric Figures into Words

Hi guys    What about a function that converts a number figure into words.This sample script is to demonstrate the procedural capabilities of SQL Server . Samples  select fig2words(10) will give --Ten-- ,select fig2words(103) will give --one hundred and three --    The author uses much under utilized capability of SQL Server the recursive function calls to […]

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2003-11-11

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Adding new column with DEFAULT II

Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp
CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL)

INSERT INTO #tmp (id) 
SELECT gs.value
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

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