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Delimited String Parsing and Evaluation Functions

Here's a quick and dirty function for parsing strings based on a delimiter (As in a varchar field with comma delimited text). I'm hoping for feedback on a more efficient means of doing this.Also,4 functions for comparing two delimited lists of strings. Many may ask why these are needed, but that's a very long explanation […]

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2005-09-21 (first published: )

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Calculate Weekdays Between 2 Dates (revised)

This is a function that takes a start date and end date as parameters and returns the number of weekdays (Monday to Friday) in between. This function assumes that Sunday is set as the first day of the week. Adapted from a vb function that I wrote to calculate standard salary costs for billing purposes. […]

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2005-09-19 (first published: )

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Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation(Revised)

This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all used fields), stored procedures (including used fields and parameters), database users, database settings and server settings.This script has been cobbled together from several others found on this site, so they deserve the recognition, not me 🙂Simply execute it […]

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2005-09-16 (first published: )

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Paging - Returning a Subset of a Recordset

Use this script to navigate your recordset a page at a time containing a specific number of records and in a specified order.I use the supplier table of the northwind Database to demonstrate thisReturn List of suppliers, ordered by supplier desc, 10 records at a timeexecute prc_lov_SUPPLIERS "", "Suppliers", 1, 1 ''Page oneexecute prc_lov_SUPPLIERS "", […]

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2005-09-08 (first published: )

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Sincronizar SID DB user com SID Login SQL

Quando você restaura um banco ou 'atacha' ao seu servidor de outro servidor, pode ocorrer de o usuário que existe no banco não sincronizar com o login do SQL server anteriormente criado com DBO desse banco, então esse script faz exatamente isso, pega o SID do SQL e dá um UPDATE no SID do usuário […]

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2005-09-06 (first published: )

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List DB tables and their maximum row size (bytes)

Many users during the process of insert or update get the following warning issued by SQL ServerWarning: The table 'TABLE NAME' has been created but its maximum row size (XXXX) exceeds the maximum number of bytes per row (8060). INSERT or UPDATE of a row in this table will fail if the resulting row length […]

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2005-09-02 (first published: )

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Formatting Dates

There are many ways to format dates, and rather that reinvent the wheel each time I've found it helpful to have a user defined function always available. As a function it of courses processes on each row, and to enable the most flexibility the formatting style is passed simply as a parameter. Year month and […]

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2005-08-31 (first published: )

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