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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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Drop all Databases (+the option to exclude one)

I made this Query because we fix databases localy on a workstation (we have no sql server) but when backup up the server they need to be deleted localy that could sometimes take a while.U can run this Query from the QA or ad it as a Job it's possible to run it from an […]

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2005-08-26 (first published: )

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Enterprise Manager Single Diagram Copy Script

This procedure will COPY an Enterprise Manager SINGLE DIAGRAM object between databases on a given SQL Server.This procedure takes in a source DB name, a Dest DB name, and the Diagram name.(Exec diagram_copy 'SOURCE_DB', 'DEST_DB', 'DIAGRAM NAME')This procedure DOES NOT have to be placed in either of the databases, you may run it from a […]

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2005-08-25 (first published: )

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Pad String

Pads a string on either with either leading or trailing characters. You specify the direction, the tolal string length and the character to pad with.Error conditions return null

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2005-08-19 (first published: )

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Too Many Choices

I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:

BrandID OfficialName
1       Samsung
2       Apple
3       Microsoft
4       Adidas
5       Coca-Cola
I run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel')
FROM dbo.MasterBrands;

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