Here's a real-life challenge I was faced with at work: my company (a talent agency) needed me to create a report listing all of our actors that we represent - and for each actor, a comma-delimited string of each production that they've starred in. Simple enough, right......except that, within the comma-delimited list of productions, they […]
2003-04-11
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This is a follow-on to info's script to strip the time portion of a datetime or smalldatetime, leaving only the date. I found info's script interesting! When I had to do this I converted the date to varchar and back again instead of to float. Seems to work fine for me.
2003-04-03
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User Defined function to parse a string with known delimiters and return back the substing in the position.Takes string,delimiter and position as parameters. Can be used directly in TSQL code.
2003-03-27
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Brian Knight recently had the basic need to retrieve a record from the database at random. What seemed to be an easy task quickly became a complex one. This case showed an interesting quirk with T-SQL that was resolved in an equally quirky way. This quick article shows you a method to retrieve random data or randomize the display of data.
2003-03-26
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Each week you are required to run various reports based on table entries made during the week preceding latest Sunday. Use this SQL7/2000 procedure (can be a UDF in SQL2K) to retrieve the latest midnight of a specified day of the week as illustrated below: Declare @StartDate datetime, @EndDate datetime Exec DBAservice.dbo.uspGetLatestWkDayMidnight @pDate = '1998-05-06', […]
2003-03-13
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Do you hate using bitwise operands? I do, a lot. I wrote the following function to try to minimize the need for using them. When testing 'status' variables in the 'sysobjects' table, for example, I decided there just had to be an easier way to see if bit 31 is set than asking if STATUS […]
2003-03-07
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You can use this procedure to find any word or sentance, which u used in procedures, views, triggers and function. This procedure is basically a modified form of system procedure "sp_helptext". Now its upto you to use that and modified that. To execute the procedure, first create it in your Database and then execute it […]
2003-02-24
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This is a little script I wrote before I saw Steve Jones write up on Tame Those Strings Part 7. This is a slightly diffent approach. It will take a string up to 255 chars and case every word first letter upper and the rest of the word lower. This ain't the best way but […]
2003-02-20
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Ever wanted to know how to reuse identity values after they're deleted? In this example by Dinesh, he shows you two methods to reuse the wholes in identity rows.
2003-02-18
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Steve Jones recently got bit by a bug the reminded him of the Y2K fiasco. Read about the problem and how Steve solved the problem.
2003-02-17
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