2004-09-25
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2004-09-25
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2004-09-25
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spilt function
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)
170 reads
function to get the number of days in a month
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)
125 reads
Convert Character Data to Numeric
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
355 reads
Defragment all table indecies
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
598 reads
Use of regular expressions in TSQL -- version 2
This script creates 2 new system functions ****************************************** NEW: 1. functions will be case sensitive if database is 2. Replace all or only first occurence ****************************************** fn__regexp_test(@String,@Pattern) returns int execute the method test(@String) on the regular expressions @Pattern returns : 0 : no match 1 : match null : one of the parameters was null […]
2004-09-21 (first published: 2004-04-08)
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Remove multiple whitespace from a string
Simple enough routine that I've had to write I don't know how many times in different languages. It does what it says in the title i.e. kills multiple occurences of the whitespace character, leaving one behind to tell the tale.
2004-09-20 (first published: 2004-05-21)
159 reads
Process XML against XSL template and save output
Given SQL text (@sql_txt) that will return XML data, run that XML data against an XSL template (@xsl_file_nm), and save the output to the specified outputfile (@out_file_nm). If @xsl_file_nm is not specified, then output is just saved as XML.This script is very usefull, but not secure. One could easily overload any of the script input […]
2004-09-17
331 reads
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