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.
2004-08-20 (first published: 2001-10-24)
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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
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This article presents a method of outputting the results of a query as a tab delimited text file using COM.
2001-07-20
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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
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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.
2005-02-18 (first published: 2001-07-16)
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The fifth part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with STUFF.
2026-02-03 (first published: 2001-06-21)
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2001-06-15
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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
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Sp_MSforeachdb gives a DBA the ability to cycle through every database in your catalog. Find out how to use it.
2001-05-31
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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
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By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
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