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)
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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)
121 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)
766 reads
2006-11-14 (first published: 2006-05-08)
102 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)
617 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)
1,080 reads
Parse a fixed length numeric value from a string
Specifically, I needed to parse a zip code (5-digit) from a client comments fields where the number was in different positions such as "Customer 999999999 should be at zip code 99999" and "99999 zipcode" and "should be zip code 99999 phone 9999999999". My stored procedure first filters on a [Comments] field string that contains variations […]
2006-11-08 (first published: 2006-06-13)
520 reads
Generate Dates Between Supplied Range - MSQL 2005
Display Dates as rows between Specified Date Range.
2006-11-07 (first published: 2006-03-22)
562 reads
Ping Linked Server
This Stored Procedure serves to verify if some error with the source of data of a Linked Server exists. In this in case, I will use a mdb that already exists in the Office - Northwind.mdb. If we do a Link Server concerned to this mdb, this is generated without errors . But when this […]
2006-11-02 (first published: 2004-06-22)
718 reads
List index information for all databases
This SQL script returns a recordset with all the index information for all tables for all databases in a SQL server(instance)
2006-10-30 (first published: 2005-10-07)
2,682 reads
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BIT_COUNT() III
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