While the other methods for calculating holidays ect use a table to store the holidays, this inline UDF goes the opposite route, by returning 1 if the given date is a weekday that also does not fall on a number of holidays. Examples shown allow for easy extension to other holidays as deemed necessary.
2004-05-02
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2004-08-20 (first published: 2004-04-20)
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For greater information of this tool can obtain it inhttp://www.dimac.net/Mail in format HTML or TEXT can be sent can be sent attached archives. It is a tool to send and to receive electronic mail from any PC or SERVER without the use of a program of mail or a mail server as Eudora, Exchange or […]
2004-04-20
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Sometimes its good to get back to basics - or to make sure you really know all the basics. This is a very good intro to all the different join types.
2004-04-16
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Script via OLE Automation and Export via BCP. Check for existance of object, checks count of table with count of exported file (reads BCP output). Will do DBCC UPDATEUSAGE if at first the SQL record count does not match BCP count. Full options for scripting (with w/o indexes, Referential integrity, etc). REQUIRES ADMIN ACCESS - […]
2004-04-15
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This is an extension of two previous scripts, this one will produce a list of ojects that contain the first parameter and not the second. The function works as a table so if the user wants to list only functions, query as: select * from fn_sys_searchobject('text1','text2') where object_type = 'function'
2004-08-19 (first published: 2004-04-14)
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As much as we're SQL Server folks here, sometimes we do need to connect to other data stores. Hai shares some of his experiences doing so. Might come in handy someday.
2008-06-06 (first published: 2004-04-14)
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2004-08-18 (first published: 2004-04-13)
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This article shows some options to retrieve all the metadata you'll need to write scripts that write scripts. No, that's not a goof, this article is about code generation.
2004-04-09
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This function returns a list of all procedures and functions that contain the given text value. It has an additional parameter to exclude procedures that contain a second text value.
2004-04-08
224 reads
By Brian Kelley
There's a great article from MIT Technology Review about resetting on the hype of...
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etherness – n. the wistful feeling of looking around a gathering of loved ones,...
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking about tracking logins and logouts in Redgate Monitor. We don’t...
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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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