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Get the Value of a BitMask

This function will take a 64 bitmask string and return the value of bitmask. If you need 128, 256, etc simply change the length of the parameter, being careful to remember you may need to change the return type of int to BigInt if you get too long.

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2005-01-04 (first published: )

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Generating sequential numbers - the fast way

It is often necessary to generate a table with sequential numbers, up to a specified upper limit N. For small N, a simple INSERT in a WHILE loop will do. But, for large N, that solution becomes too slow. This script presents a different approach. It generates sequential numbers from the binary representation of N, […]

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2004-12-30 (first published: )

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Number of Weekdays between two dates - Set Based

Inspired by a post here at SQLServerCentral, I wrote this function to calculate the number of days between two dates that are weekdays. In order to achieve this I used a common SQL table that contains a sequence of number for 1 to X. This was used as an input to the datediff function, and […]

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2004-12-24 (first published: )

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Retrieving all indexes of the Database.

The Script outputs all the indexes in the Database.I have used the sp_helpIndex system stored procedure here to retrieve all the indexes available for the Table . This is extremely useful in identifying all the indexes in a database in a single query

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2004-12-22 (first published: )

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