2004-09-25
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Miscellaneous
2004-09-25
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2004-09-25
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2005-09-28 (first published: 2004-09-23)
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Build a Delimited List And Query Syscomments, Tricks of the Trade
Delimited lists aren't always good idea, but if you need one, what's a good way to do it? Ever use the object_name functio or query syscomments? Or know why you might want to? These couple tips might save you some time one day.
2004-09-21
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Messaging Patterns in Service-Oriented Architecture, Part 1
A service oriented architecture seeks to decouple some of the tight connections normally built between systems and components. Here's a great overview on how messaging between systems can be setup from MSDN.
2004-09-20
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Process XML against XSL template and save output
Given SQL text (@sql_txt) that will return XML data, run that XML data against an XSL template (@xsl_file_nm), and save the output to the specified outputfile (@out_file_nm). If @xsl_file_nm is not specified, then output is just saved as XML.This script is very usefull, but not secure. One could easily overload any of the script input […]
2004-09-17
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To convert binary value to bit wise and vice versa
A procedure and a function doing the same thing are posted.
2004-09-16
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Microsoft, SQL Server and Performance Management: The Business Scoreca
The first article looking at the new BI scorecard technology from Microsoft. This allows you to quickly deploy some easy reports on your OLAP system. From datawarehouse.com.
2004-09-16
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Alphanumeric and Special Character Validation
Alphanumeric and Special Character Validation=========================================/*Function name: fn_ValidateStringDescription : This function is used to validate whether the given string contains Alphanumeric character and some special character’s ‘@’ ,’(‘, ‘ )’, ‘_’, ‘-‘Parameters: 1) @InputString varchar(25) Accepts the string, which we need to validate 2) @Type int = 0 validate the string for only alphanumeric characters i.e […]
2004-09-14
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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