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Date Time Range or Calendar Generator

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This function returns a formated calendar table. It came in handy a few times for me, so I thought it may be a good contribution. There would be a few better ways to create this function if date-part were a valid data type. It is a pretty straight-forward function. You may edit it if you […]

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2006-10-05 (first published: )

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Update a table column with a sequence number v2.0

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In response to Sachinvaishnav's search for a better way to insert a sequence number column in the same table, I bring you a cursor free Sql server 2005 example that utilizes the new ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY) Function available in 2005

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2006-04-11 (first published: )

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