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Correction to parsestring

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The original function fails when a mistaken split char is being snet to the function.This can easly be corrected by adding an if to check the value of the @holdpos inside the loop before sending it to the substring functionif the value is 0 then break the loop

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2005-02-23 (first published: )

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Script to return datetime as just date

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You can return the date as a string (varchar) in whatever date format you like by adding a 'style' to the CONVERT statement. Exmaples of style values are (two left hand columns):1 101 USA mm/dd/yy 2 102 ANSI yy.mm.dd 3 103 British/French dd/mm/yy 4 104 German dd.mm.yy 5 105 Italian dd-mm-yy 6 106 - dd […]

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2005-02-18 (first published: )

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String Similarity I

On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL')

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