SQL Server 2012: Time Marches On
Greg Larsen explores the new SQL Server 2012 date and time functions and shows you how to exploit these functions in new application code.
2013-02-13
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Date Manipulation
2012-11-27
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SQL Server Function to return a range of dates
A quick solution is a table function that will create a date range based on the parameters given. Then, you can just join to the results.
2012-11-02
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2012-01-30 (first published: 2011-12-23)
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2012-01-20 (first published: 2011-12-16)
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2011-06-24 (first published: 2011-06-14)
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Find Last Day of the Month
Find the last day (or number of days in a month) in one statement without having to use IFs or BUTs.
2011-05-10 (first published: 2011-04-29)
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2011-04-27 (first published: 2011-04-21)
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2010-11-26 (first published: 2010-11-04)
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A Flexible Day Of Week Function
A Flexible Day Of Week Function where a criteria can be passed as an integer to a stored procedure.
2010-10-13 (first published: 2010-10-06)
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers