This script finds the first day of previous, current and next month as well as last day of previous, current and next month.The calculation is based on the ISO date format which makes it independant of the date format used on the SQL Server.The calculation is performed from a date - it can be altered […]
2004-12-02 (first published: 2004-10-21)
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How many times has an application exploded because you upgraded or patched SQL Server? How many people were aware that a patch was applied? New author Andre Vigneau has dealt with this and gives us some code that our applications can use to check to see if anything has changed. It doesn't keep the code working, but it does allow you to inform users that something has changed.
2004-10-21
5,778 reads
This is a function that takes a start date and end date as parameters and returns the number of weekdays (Monday to Friday) in between. This function assumes that Sunday is set as the first day of the week. Adapted from a vb function that I wrote to calculate standard salary costs for billing purposes. […]
2005-09-19 (first published: 2004-10-16)
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I have a table named employees with an identity column named id. Also,last_name is a column in the table named employees. I created the employeestable and inserted 9 rows in it. If I do a select * from employees, theoutput looks like this:id last_name1 a2 b3 c4 d5 e6 f7 g8 h9 iThen I deleted […]
2004-11-29 (first published: 2004-10-13)
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The following functions returns the number of years, months and days between two dates. The first returns a table format, and the second returns 1 value at a time
2004-12-01 (first published: 2004-10-13)
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This script extends the "Find strings in text of stored procedures" Script by LiviuB and and now finds thestring and removes it. You may modify script to just comment out the text.This script removes the text (in this case 'set dateformat dmy') from all non-system stored procedures in a database.Modify the variable @searchstring to contain […]
2004-11-26 (first published: 2004-10-13)
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The Windows Mobile platform, which includes Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft SQL Server CE, encapsulates the complex tasks of communication management and data exchange while your device is in a disconnected state. (16 printed pages)
2004-10-13
1,690 reads
Andy has some examples of not very high tech solutions that involve some technology behind the scenes, but the binding factor was that someone had to see the problem first. Not about SQL, but we think it is on topic.
2004-10-08
4,461 reads
I've search high and low on the Internet for good examples of Paging Data in an application. However, none of the Examples were clean enough, or worked for all situations. For example, there are no examples of Data Paging for Tables with Composite Keys.This Script is able to page Data on any Table, using any […]
2004-10-07
336 reads
This script displays all tables in a database that has identity columns.
2004-10-06
151 reads
By Steve Jones
I’m not sure I knew identity column values could not be updated. I ran...
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
I have mentioned this several times over several years. Can someone please help me...
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Component) AS Found FROM tblComponents WHERE(Component NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%') AND(LTRIM(RTRIM(Component)) = 'GM13622')...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects:...
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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