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Beware the REPLACE function when doing heavy string parsing

I found something interesting the other day. I was attempting to optimize a very heavy string parsing routine using T-SQL and was having problems. I don’t normally use T-SQL for such heavy string parsing, but this was a special case of a legacy structure that I had to work with, so I had no choice.

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2009-08-27

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To Date or Not To Date….

OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store current data, but there is a need for future-dated data as well. Because the base table can’t hold that data...

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2009-05-18

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What's a DBA

Most of us are tired of this overused, vague term. How many of you have clicked on a 'DBA' job posting only to find that it's not what you do? Or asked for a DBA resume from a recruiter and gotten something other than what you expected? Or...

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2009-05-14

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Creating a JSON Document I

I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:

TeamID  TeamName  City          YearEstablished
1       Cowboys   Dallas        1960
2       Eagles  Philadelphia  1933
If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

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