Piyush Tripathi

Hi, I am Piyush Tripathi, a Software Engineer (San Francisco) and expert in micro service base API design and development. 

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Extract parts of the strings from the SQL results directly by using SQL's substring-extraction API functions

If you need to extract a substring or create a longer string by combining multiple strings, there are a few methods you can use. To extract a specific portion of a string, you can utilize a substring-extraction function.

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Python 3 Script for Generating SQL Insert Statements from CSV Data

This Python 3 script is designed to take CSV file data pasted into the csv_data variable and generate SQL insert statements that can be used to insert the data into a MySQL database. The script is easy to use and can save you a lot of time when working with large amounts of data.

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Question of the Day

The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User

On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:

CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567'
GO
ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo
GO
I then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox
go
SELECT CURRENT_USER
What is returned?

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