Yousef Ekhtiari


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Extracting words with removal of punctuations

Extracting words of a string with removal of unwanted punctuations.This is a flexible function to extract words from a string and tested on both SQL 2000 and 2005As you see the logic of this function is very simple. Maybe the update statement seems strange to beginners because it does not update any field of underlying […]

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2007-09-26 (first published: )

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Search for an expression in the body of programmable objects

Sometimes you want to modify an object (like a stored procedure, Function, trigger and view) and you can not remember the name of that object, but you remember some words of the comments that you placed in the body of that object. If this is your case, you can use the following procedures depending on […]

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2006-11-30 (first published: )

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