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SPLIT function

This is a port of the SPLIT function from Perl (or VBScript). It works the same way: pass a string anda separator, up to 4 characters long (you can change this),and the function returns a table with the elements.This version trims leading and trailling spaces of the elements, just for convenience.Example:SELECT    strvalFROM    master.dbo.SPLIT('a and b', […]

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2003-06-13

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Port from Oracle's TRANSLATE Function

Here is a port from the Oracle's TRANSLATE function to T-SQL. It gets three arguments: a string to be searched, a string with a set of characters to be found and replaced, and another set of characters as the replacements. Example: SELECT dbo.TRANSLATE('ABCDE', 'BD', 'CE') It will return 'ACCEE'.

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2002-01-03

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BIT_COUNT() V

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