This Stored Procedure is for Searching all the user defined Stored Procedures in a database for the existence of a specified string . This is especially useful when you have changed some Column name and want to Find the Column Name in all the Stored Procedures where it is used, so it will return you […]
2004-03-26
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This Function is a small script to retrieve the age of person based on date of birth to a particular date.Eg.select dbo.GetDateofbirth ('01/01/1975',GETDATE())RETURNS29Years 2Months 24Days that is the age.TESTED only on SQLSERVER 2000
2004-03-25
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This Function Enables the user to retrieve the Last Index of the character/string in a predetermined string.Eg If you want search for the Last Occurance of 'SQL' in 'SQL SERVER2000 USES ANSI SQL' thenSELECT dbo.LastIndexOf('SQL SERVER2000 USES ANSI SQL','SQL')will return 26.Tested Only in SQL SERVER2000
2004-03-25
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Continuing Steve Jones' series on string manipulation in T-SQL, this article examines how quotations are handled in T-SQL.
2026-02-05 (first published: 2004-03-25)
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Function RJZeroN is used for formatting integer numbers as right-justified strings with leading zeroes according to a specified size (max 20 characters which will hold the largest BIGINT value). A NULL value is returned if the formatting cannot be done according to the values specified.Example: Format a 3-digit number as a 7-character numberstring with leading […]
2004-03-24
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Found a version of this on the net. removed the loop and if/thens and made it a case statement 2004-03-11: Changed '@%@' to '%@%@%'
2004-03-08
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This script uses the extended stored procedure xp_instance_regread to read a value from the registry
2004-02-20
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This script uses an old mathematical way of doing hierarchical queries. The most common way of showing hierarchical data in SQL Server is by creating a stored procedure that calls itself. This is not a recent problem, in fact this programming technique has been around since the first programming languages. By using stacks, you can […]
2007-05-02 (first published: 2004-02-17)
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2004-09-30 (first published: 2004-02-16)
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2004-10-01 (first published: 2004-02-16)
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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers