Renu Mehta


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Script to split a comma seperated string to table

Requirement:Multiple Customers were selected from a interface created in VB. A stored procedure was created which accepts the customer codes as a parameter in the form of 100,200,300,400. Wanted to fetch the information for only those customers selected. Ideally we will have to create a dynamic SQL which would be somewhat like this Set @StrSQL […]

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2006-04-19 (first published: )

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Script to find a particular string in procs/func.

Requirement:I added a parameter to an existing user defined function. This user-defined function was used in many procedures across system. Whenever a parameter is added to a user defined function, then we will have to change the calling of the function and pass the value for the new parameter added. Even though the parameter is […]

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2006-04-18 (first published: )

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The Decoded Value

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DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX);

SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000)));
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