Day of Week
To find the day of week, regardless of-SET DATEFIRST -SET DATEFORMAT -SET LANGUAGEThe first one is based on Zellers Congruence.The second one is a SQL server proprietary.
2002-04-05
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Simulate Rownumber (a la Oracle?)
Shows how to return data with a "rownumber". Some unique column is needed.
2002-04-05
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Today with no time portion
How to get current day with the timeportion = 00:00:00.000.Works regardless of locale.
2002-04-05
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LastDayPreviousMonth / FirstDayCurrentMonth
The fastest way of getting LastDayPreviousMonth / FirstDayCurrentMonth
2002-04-04
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The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?