Need to proper case names? Want a quick way to reformat a series of words? This article examines a SQL approach to quickly proper casing all words in a field.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2001-10-24)
12,616 reads
Or how to query for a particular type of customer. This article examines how you may query for particular rows that match one condition, but may not match another.
2001-09-19
3,735 reads
This article presents a method of outputting the results of a query as a tab delimited text file using COM.
2001-07-20
6,579 reads
Ever had to calculate the number of business days between two dates? This article presents a way to solve this problem in T-SQL.
2001-07-18
13,004 reads
Xp_sendmail is a great utility that SQL Server provides in order to e-mail messages directly from SQL Server, by using a valid MAPI profile. However, its syntax is rather stringent. In this article by Kunal Das, he shows you how to send messages to a list of recipients generated by a query dynamically in T-SQL.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2001-07-16)
23,958 reads
The fifth part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with STUFF.
2001-06-21
10,888 reads
2001-06-15
7,455 reads
One of the keys to database performance if keeping your transactions as short as possible. In this article we will look at a couple of tricks using the CASE statement to perform multiple updates on a table in a single operation.
2001-06-04
10,711 reads
Sp_MSforeachdb gives a DBA the ability to cycle through every database in your catalog. Find out how to use it.
2001-05-31
13,778 reads
Is there such a thing as a task where you would not need a cursor? Hidden in the depths of the master database are a series of stored procedures that can replace some cursors with these one-liners.
2001-05-22
14,242 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