i searched for "strip function" and found this link:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=8&messageid=12594

Antarese686 contributed this function:

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fn_StripAlpha (@val VARCHAR(8000))

RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)

AS

BEGIN

DECLARE @valout VARCHAR(8000)

DECLARE @pos INT

SET @pos = 0

SET @valout =...

ok here is the function and an example of how i use it; like i said, i use a calculated column for the sort order ;

also note that there is...

--As A cursor solution:

declare

 @fruitlist varchar(2000),

 @categ varchar(64)

 declare c1 cursor for select distinct category from #fruittable

 open c1

 fetch next from c1 into @categ

 While @@fetch_status <> -1

  begin

                set @fruitlist=''

  select  @fruitlist=@fruitlist +  isnull(name,'') + ',' ...

using your fruittable as a model, maybe something like this will help?

you'd still need to use a cursor, but just one cursor for each category; the code for within the...

i did something similar as well;in mine i assumed 4 sets like an ip address( it was actually version information, major/minor/revision andthe fourth param i can't remember right now) ,...

nowadays, some programs will install the desktop edition as their database, instead of access or some other system; i've heard that new dell systems have it preinstalled to hold some...

seen this many times; you can search SSC for "completely uninstall" or "manually uninstall" and find lots of info like this thread here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/shwmessage.aspx?forumid=5&messageid=254290

i picked this script up from the forums a couple of months ago; it creates all the stements to move all indexesto a new file group:

I'm sorry i don't have...

if this were an internal only applicaiton, i might agree it would be no big deal to install an extra installation of SQL server, but if this is going to...

The name that goes in your connection string is SOMEMACHINNAME\INSTANCENAME;

I would ask this first: why must you create an additional instance, instead of using the default instance on the...

I think we need to see the table definitions; it looks to me like you have separate tables for ID, name and address;

at the very least the ID and NAME...

very simple:

update some_table set somecolumn=replace(somecolumn,'.txt','.csv')

you want to use the datediff function for this:

SELECT DATEDIFF(day, somedatecolumn, getdate()) AS no_of_days from sometable

SELECT * from sometable where DATEDIFF(day, somedatecolumn, getdate()) =3 --exactly 3 days old

SELECT * from...

 monster searches like this are bad, but sometimes you gotta do it:

I made an ugly server intensive cursor for a similar question a while back;noone came up with a...

you would not need to increase the size of the isql variable; that is just containing the command "sp_helptext your_long_procedure_name" ; i think the max size it could ever be...