A Refresher on Joins

Knowing the various types of joins can greatly expand your T-SQL skills. Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a refresher article on the various types of joins and how to write them.

Function to calculate Month End Date

This function will return you the month-end date. Input parameter may be any date of that month for which you want to calculate month-end.Example:Input: '2-20-2004'      Output: '2-29-2004'Input: '2-15-2004'      Output: '2-29-2004'Input: '3-20-2004'      Output: '3-31-2004'Input: '3-30-2004'      Output: '3-31-2004'

What does this return on SQL Server 2005?

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The NEWSEQUENTIALID Function

The NEWSEQUENTIALID system function is an addition to SQL Server 2005. It seeks to bring together, what used to be, conflicting requirements in SQL Server 2000; namely identity-level insert performance and globally unique values.

What does the DUMP command do?

Function Based Index in T-SQL

To build function based index in SQL Server, you can use indexed view (materialized view) or using a computed column. In this script, I give an exmaple of how to use the computed column to implement a function based index on a table to search through a free formated telephone number column. The basic step […]

Query Hierarchical data Using CTE in T-SQL 2005

In response to Sam Stange's "An old and new way to query Hierarchical data", this script uses the new CTE feature of SQL Server 2005 to display the hierarchical data all at once. I have added a check to prevent infinite loop in case there is a loop in the data (actually, there is one […]

What does CONTINUE do in T-SQL?

Campare Case Insensitive  CampareCaseInsensitive

Case Insensitive Camparison remains a problem for most developers since SQL Server not supports any built in function for these purpose here is one wich compares varchar strings and returns 1 is mathes and 0 other wiseselect dbo.CampareCaseInsensitive('A','a')

Code Comparison between two databases

This script compares the code (SP, Func. etc.) between two databases (say Dev and QA) and reports the objects which have differences.