Delimited String Parsing Functions - 2D set
Feed it double-delimited horizontal data and it returns it back as a non-pivoted vertical table with a 2-diemensional star schema.
2008-10-14 (first published: 2008-08-05)
1,041 reads
T-SQL
Delimited String Parsing Functions - Big Set
Feed it large strings of delimited horizontal data and it returns it back as a vertical table.
2008-08-05
1,407 reads
Delimited String Parsing Functions - Basic Set
Feed it delimited horizontal data and it returns it back as a vertical table.
2008-10-20 (first published: 2008-08-05)
2,696 reads
Counter Table (table of numbers) Setter-Upper for SQL Server 2005
Sets up 3 'table of numbers' that completely fill a 1, 2, and 3-level clustered index respectivly with 622, 386884, and 240641848 numbers.
2008-08-05
1,143 reads
Counter Table (table of numbers) Setter-Upper for SQL Server 2000
Sets up 3 'table of numbers' that completely fill a 1, 2, and 3-level clustered index respectivly with 620, 384400, and 238328000 numbers.
2008-08-05
493 reads
2008-08-05
4,914 reads
Just For Fun: An Impossible Delete
How can you delete only some duplicates? Without Identity's, Temp tables, Cursors, loops or ROW_NUMBER()? Would you believe, go back to the 70's?
2009-10-30 (first published: 2008-08-05)
32,577 reads
2008-08-01
3,870 reads
2008-07-30
3,871 reads
2008-07-28
3,766 reads
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
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