this procedure takes a character, tablename and columnname as input-parameter; on execution it removes the given leading character from the table-column - as well as leading blanks. small and easy but very helpful.
2003-11-27
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It is often necessary to generate a table with sequential numbers, up to a specified upper limit N. For small N, a simple INSERT in a WHILE loop will do. But, for large N, that solution becomes too slow. This script presents a different approach. It generates sequential numbers from the binary representation of N, […]
2004-12-30 (first published: 2003-11-24)
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New Author! The author tries to port a solution from Oracle and runs into a problem. Agree with the solution?
2003-11-21
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Hi guys What about a function that converts a number figure into words.This sample script is to demonstrate the procedural capabilities of SQL Server . Samples select fig2words(10) will give --Ten-- ,select fig2words(103) will give --one hundred and three -- The author uses much under utilized capability of SQL Server the recursive function calls to […]
2003-11-11
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This is a bummed version of many of the "csv creating" scripts I've seen. No need to use a temp table or loop; the string can be built with one select statement (Select @String = isnull(@String + ',','') + Column From Table)
2003-11-10
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Sometimes it's necessary to strip non-numeric characters from the string, so you can convert to integer without error. Often it happens when you want to use stored procedure, especially system procedures. The output there can be already with some characters (MB, KB and such), but you want this result to be used for your own […]
2003-11-10
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This article presents one technique to be used for removing duplicate rows in a table.
2003-11-07
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Need a comma seperated list of a particular column in a table. This will do the trick.
2003-11-03
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I modified mbenothmane's script..plz refer to "Paged data without temp table and without cursor(http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/947.asp)"
2003-11-03
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Stored procedure that return range of data from any table without using temp table or cursors. You don't even need to use the IDENTITY field in your target table. Check out and comments are welcomed
2003-10-27
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I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')
I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
TravelLogID,
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17')
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFF
I now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17')
GO
What is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025?
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