Needing to number rows with a sequential id is a pretty common request. Sometimes it's because the user hasn't made the transition to 'set based' thinking, sometimes it really is a valid request (more or less!). Greg provides several different techniques to help you achieve sequential numbering.
2003-12-05
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Ever need to find out what anniversary dates are coming up? What about a list of birthdays in the near future? This article looks at querying for repeating dates.
2003-11-11
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Stateless programming can be tricky... In case you ever need to return a specified subset of a query without first returning the entire recordset, here's a method.
2003-08-29
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New Author! Thom's first article discusses the difficulties you encounter when your database doesn't support cascading deletes (or you've opted not to use it) and you need to delete data in a child table based upon a value in the parent table. Not exactly your run of the mill delete query. Take a look and please rate/comment the article!
2003-06-24
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This article provides you with a simple stored procedure, that can search all the columns of all the tables in the current database, and replace a given search string with another string.
2002-12-31
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One of the many useful features gained by SQL Server 2000 is the ability to handle XML documents. This means that any computer language capable of opening an XML files and calling SQL Server stored procedures can make use of this new ability. This article by David Poole shows you how!
2002-10-11
12,018 reads
In this article, we will leverage Extended Stored Procedures to extend the functionality of SQL Server and give a starting point to experiment with Extended Stored Procedures.
2002-08-26
6,863 reads
The second part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL.
2002-05-31
15,663 reads
Steve Jones continues his series on string manipulation. This articles examines the issues of quotes when implementing dynamic SQL.
2002-04-04
7,644 reads
Use this free stored procedure to compare two different SQL Server databases in order to discover how they differ. Sp_CompareDB can compare both table structures and the data stored in them. Also learn how the stored procedure was written.
2002-02-22
1,214 reads
By Brian Kelley
In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...
By Steve Jones
It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m...
Apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum, but I am trying to...
Hello all, I have a linked server created on an instance which only has...
Hi, I want to find all the tables name under a database where tables...
In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?
SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']' See possible answers