2016-10-21 (first published: 2015-05-12)
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2016-05-25 (first published: 2014-03-06)
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Code For Truncating Table with foreign Key Constraints
This can be used for data warehouses as well as truncating table with foreign key constraints.
2016-04-08 (first published: 2014-07-07)
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Accurate Time between Two Dates in Year, Month,Day Format
This script shows the total time between two dates.
2016-03-29 (first published: 2014-07-09)
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Detach & Attach Procedure
For successful run, Your SQL Server service account should have permission to old location & new location
2015-05-27 (first published: 2015-05-10)
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Find only characters or only integer from alphanumeric value
Extract only integers or characters from alphanumeric :
2014-10-07 (first published: 2014-09-05)
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers