playyuer@Microshaoft.com inventhttp://www.Microshaoft.com2004-09-29 updatethere is NOT any relation with global variable: @@DATEFIRSTyou can set datefirst any value from 0 to 7 and result can not be affected!
2004-09-29
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This function returns the difference between dates in the HH:MM:SS format.
2004-09-27 (first published: 2004-03-08)
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Many a times we need to split a string into its indivisual words and return a array like the Split function of Visal Basic which accepts a delimeter. Here is a script which assumes the delimeter to be the space character and works in a similar method.
2004-09-24 (first published: 2004-03-25)
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This functin returns the number of days in a month, given the month and the year. It does this by adding 1 month to the first of the month, substract 1 day and get the day part of the result.
2004-09-23 (first published: 2004-03-30)
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This is a simple stored procedure, for inclusion in your script writing efforts, that strips non-numeric data from a given varchar. This is most usefull in scripts used to clean-up data such as account numbers that may include spaces, dashes and the like.
2004-09-21
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To help maintain index quality, defragging of any given index is a good thing. This will defrag ALL indecies in the current DB. NOTE: Schedule for off-hours operations. For a massive re-write of indecies, change the remarking on "--IF @indid" lines to use reindex instead of just defragging.
2004-09-21
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If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers