Get Currenttime without time
This script will get you the current date minus the time. It will display all zeros instead.
2005-01-10 (first published: 2004-12-28)
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Current date without the timestamp
This script will get you the current date minus the time. It will display all zeros instead.
2005-01-07 (first published: 2004-12-28)
389 reads
Date without the time
This script will get you the current date minus the time. It will display all zeros instead.
2005-01-06 (first published: 2004-12-28)
202 reads
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.
2005-01-04 (first published: 2004-12-30)
257 reads
Simpler First/Last Day of Months
Script uses simpler Dateadd function ensuring additions/substractions are based from 1st of month.
2005-01-03 (first published: 2004-12-02)
147 reads
Row Counts of Tables for a databse
I wanted to know which tables contains the most populated records in db. So I wrote this script.
2005-01-02 (first published: 2004-11-18)
110 reads
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, […]
2004-12-30 (first published: 2003-11-24)
647 reads
Function Number of Week Days between Two Dates
This function will calculate the number of weekdays between two dates passed. This allows for accurate tracking of "business days" for metrics in many different views.
2004-12-28 (first published: 2004-12-16)
278 reads
Collect Database Properties
To examine all the properties of a database is time consuming. The following script gives you a quick overview of the most important properties of all the databases on your SQL Server.
2004-12-27 (first published: 2004-12-10)
667 reads
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 […]
2004-12-24 (first published: 2004-12-07)
322 reads
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