T-SQL Data Processing
This article from new author Peter Kierstead shows us how to implement your own "fuzzy" dedup/merge logic without resorting to RBAR in T-SQL.
2008-06-23
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T-SQL
The Ultimate Foreign Key Researcher
Searches for actual and potential foreign key columns for a given primary key reference.
2009-10-12 (first published: 2008-06-20)
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2008-06-20
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2008-06-18
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2008-08-08 (first published: 2008-06-16)
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Correlated Joins Using "Apply"
Discusses the use of the newly introduced APPLY Statement in SQL Server 2005
2009-02-27 (first published: 2008-06-16)
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Compound Assignment Operators in SQL Server 2008
MAK illustrates the use of Compound Assignment Operator that is introduced in SQL Server 2008.
2008-06-13
1,978 reads
Java's String.hashCode() function in T-SQL
T-SQL function to takes a string and produce an integer hashcode matching what is produced by the Java String.hashCode() method.
2008-08-04 (first published: 2008-06-11)
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Identity Columns
When Nigel Rivett takes us on a tour of the apparently innocuous subject of Identity Columns in TSQL, even the seasoned programmer is due for one or two surprises.
2008-06-10
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2008-06-09
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Rolling Back a Broken Release
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We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
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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