2009-12-07 (first published: 2009-11-12)
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Display COUNT(*) but ONLY TOP 100
Let’s say you have a result set with 5000 records but you want to display only 100 of them and in the same time to display the count of ALL records (5000).
2009-11-20 (first published: 2009-11-05)
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Split string into table, separator can be more than 1 char
Split string like ('123,43,5465,6788,1231,111', ',') into table, separator (,) can be more than 1 char
2009-11-19 (first published: 2009-11-05)
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