Peter Larsson


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PARSENAME Enhancement

The ParseName function is very useful for getting parts out of a string of characters between delimiters. But a limitiation is that you only can get four parts out, and the function only accepts dots as delimiters.The function I have written below overcomes that limitations, and add a new feature to enable "from left" and […]

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2007-08-27 (first published: )

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CHECKSUM replacement for IMAGE

As we all know, BINARY_CHECKSUM ignores columns of data type IMAGE.This code is 100% compatible with MS original. That is, the result is identical.You can use it "as is", or you can use it to see that MS function does not produce that unique values one could expect.

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2007-02-15 (first published: )

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CHECKSUM replacement for TEXT

As we all know, BINARY_CHECKSUM ignores columns of data type TEXT.This code is 100% compatible with MS original. That is, the result is identical.You can use it "as is", or you can use it to see that MS function does not produce that unique values one could expect.

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2007-02-13 (first published: )

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MIME64 Encoder and Decoder written in T-SSQL

Here is a MIME64 encoder function written entirely in T-SQL!© 2006 Peter Larsson, Developer Workshop, all rights reservedAs long as the copyright notice is visible within the function declarationand you include a note in the documentation of your system that thesefunctions are written by me, you may use these functions for free of charge.If you […]

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2006-11-09 (first published: )

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