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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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2007-03-29 (first published: )

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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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