Whose birthday next?
sort employee birthday by on coming order. If the person's birthday is yesterday, s/he should be in the bottom.
2006-11-23 (first published: 2004-12-29)
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Scripts
Format Value To Currency
Create SQL Function To Format To Currency(for more scripts goto http://www.siccolo.com/articles.html)
2006-11-21
851 reads
Know the JOBNAME and JOBOWNER
As an administrator it is required sometimes to list out the job owners.This is a simple script that will allow to fetch this information. By applying a filter a specific job owner list can be fetched.
2006-11-21 (first published: 2006-01-30)
136 reads
(Dutch) Elfproef in T-SQL UDF
In The Netherlands we use bankaccountnumbers that need to comply to a test call 'elfproef'. This test evaluates the sum of each number multiplied by the position the number appears in the accountnumber. If the modulos of the sum divided by 11 is zero then the accountnumber is valid. The length of a bankaccountnumber in […]
2006-11-20 (first published: 2004-12-14)
622 reads
Remove multiple whitespace from a string: revise
This is a re-written function that the idea got from yesterday's script. This function used a recursive call to simplify the script.
2006-11-17 (first published: 2004-09-20)
221 reads
Last_Date_Of_Month
Get the Last date of the month for the given month and year In response to a post By: Anonymous - Posted: 2/16/2004 3:31:12 AM (Stored Procedure).... Thought that there should be a more efficient / functional way of doing this. And here it is. Of course, a function would probably be more efficient, and […]
2006-11-16 (first published: 2004-09-30)
114 reads
Merge Wizard
In our environment, we needed to create and drop replication over and over in our test environment and I got realy tired of having to manualy go to each table with an identity column to set its ranges. This sproc will create or drop the publications and/or subscriptions for all or some of the objects […]
2006-11-15 (first published: 2001-09-05)
753 reads
2006-11-14 (first published: 2006-05-08)
99 reads
Data Driven Subscriptions in SQL RS Standard
As many of you know, data driven subscriptions is not a feature available with SQL 2000 RS Standard Edition. However, you can accomplish this using the supplied stored procedure. It may not be as pretty as the version in SQL Enterprise, but this one gets the job done, and it is very ……useful!I have not […]
2006-11-13 (first published: 2006-05-11)
608 reads
MIME64 Encoder and Decoder written in T-SSQL
Here is a MIME64 encoder function written entirely in T-SQL!© 2006 Peter Larsson, Developer Workshop, all rights reservedAs long as the copyright notice is visible within the function declarationand you include a note in the documentation of your system that thesefunctions are written by me, you may use these functions for free of charge.If you […]
2006-11-09 (first published: 2006-06-15)
1,069 reads
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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