A simple UDF for padding out numbers with a specific character (eg: pad 3 to show as 003).Usefull when you can only sort as a text item or for formatting purposes.Script is similar to the SPACE() function but allow the padding character to be defined.Usage:dbo.padNumber('string to pad', padsize, padchar)eg:SELECT dbo.padNumber('53', 4, '0') as testNumReturns:testNum-------0053
2003-07-25
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Bad data is almost a given, but true duplicate data can really cause you some headaches. How do you remove all the duplicates and still leave a 'keeper' record? If you think procedural code it's not too hard, but can you do a set based solution? Chris shows you show!
2003-07-25
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Enter the starting zip code and the number of miles for a radius search and the SP will return all the zip codes within the number of miles specified.The data file can be found at http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.txtThe record layout van be found at http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zip90r.txt
2003-07-24
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New author! This article has a stored procedure that will generate an HTML document - as long as the table has the proper schema. If you try it, be sure to download the associated zip which has some images and the script for the stored procedure.
2003-07-23
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This works, however code is creating a live temp_1 table in the database instead of using a #temp_1 temporary table because is just would not work.The next idea I had was to use a unique table name per connection for temp_1, but I would really rather use temporary tables.I am hoping some SQL guru's can […]
2003-07-22
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New Author! Stephan writes about why he thinks the bulk load capabilities added in the SQLXML3 addition are a great way to handle imports - maybe so good that you'll stop using BCP.
2003-07-21
12,740 reads
Oftentimes there is a need to retrieve different types of the same object (e.g. contacts). For example, in a Contacts database, you might have a Contact table containing many different types of contacts (employees, customers, suppliers, etc). Typically, a user might need to see a report of all different types of contacts for an order […]
2003-07-18
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As you might guess from the title, this is an extended stored procedure that you can use to interact with MSMQ. It's supposed to be extremely fast, able to handle 4-5k messages per second and have a very small memory footprint. (Press Release)
2003-07-17
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I manage quite a few hundred databases across the company. Time to time I get a question if I can check wheather a database is beeing used or not, and if it is, by whom?There are probably a 1000 ways to do this, but I've created a script for creating a scheduled job that runs […]
2003-07-15
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New author! Tom publishes his first article with us by writing about how business intelligence and data warehouses work together at a high level. Interesting stuff.
2003-07-15
9,306 reads
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I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')
I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
TravelLogID,
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17')
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFF
I now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17')
GO
What is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025?
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