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UDF Random Password Generator

UDF Random Password GeneratorYou can not use the RAND function directly from a User Defined Function. So the UDF I wrote "fn_RandomPassword" uses the view "view_RandomPassword8" to get the random charaters.Having the random password generator is useful if you need to insert a large number of users into a table with random passwords assigned.For example […]

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Convert Interger to Binary String for Bit Masks

The three functions here can be used to store Bit Masks as Integers.These are functions to convert an integer into a binary string. This can be useful if you store Bit Masks in your database as integers.For example .. '00000000000011111001001001110011' to 1020531Each Bit could represent an ON or OFF value. One integer columncould be equivalent […]

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The Distance Metric

In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?

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