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SUBSTR - SUBSTRING function extension

SUBSTR returns a portion of char, beginning at character @StartPos, @Length characters long. If @StartPos is 0, it is treated as 1. If @StartPos is positive, Oracle counts from the beginning of char to find the first character. If @StartPos is negative, Oracle counts backwards from the end of char.

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2003-07-02

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Adds TIME portion of a DT to the DATE of another

UDF that returns a DATETIME which is the concatination of the TIME portion of one DATETIME and the DATE portion of another.EXAMPLES:DECLARE @Date DATETIME, @Time DATETIMESET @Date = '7/1/03 16:00'SET @Time = '5/16/1999 9:30 AM'PRINT dbo.FN_AddDateTime(@Date,@Time )RETURNS: Jul  1 2003  9:30AMPRINT dbo.FN_AddDateTime(@Date,0)RETURNS: Jul  1 2003 12:00AM

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2003-07-01

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Decimal2Text Measurement Function

This function is based on a script by Tim Dietrich (tim@timdietrich.us) named format_height.sql. His function took what he called a decimal representation of a measurement and formatted it as feet and inches. In reality the input value was just a measurement formatted to look like a decimal number but it was not a true decimal […]

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2003-06-27

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Manage Extended Property

     While we are exploring the possibility to build data-driven application whose GUI are all dynamically generated according to database objects' extended property, we find the system provided procedures: sp_addextendedproperty, sp_dropextendedproperty,sp_updateextendedproperty can add extended property to only one object each time, while fn_listextendedproperty can not let you search objects to display their extended property. […]

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2003-06-27

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Script to backup all databases

A proc which gets a list of all databases (Exluding "excluded" ones) and backs them up.The backup files are stored in the directory \DatabaseName\DatabaseName.bakUNC names are supported provided SQL Server has write access to the location.It deletes backups older than x (Current 3) days.This can be changed.Add a job to execute the script of proc […]

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2003-06-26

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