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Table Pivoting revisited

A lot of table pivoting scripts use cursors to reach the  desired results, but SQL scripting was developed to be utilized in a data set environment rather than sequential step-thru scripting.Normally, there are 3 types of Table Pivoting - 1) column explicit 2) column implicit and 3)single column.  COLUMN EXPLICIT will place the row value […]

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2003-05-29

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Find Duplicate Indexes - Episode 1 (The Early SQL Versions)

The excellent script contributed by G.R. Preethiviraj Kulasingham (Preethi) Sri Lanka (contributed 2/20/03, modified 5/22/03) identifies duplicate indexes for the database on which the script is run.  It requires User Defined Functions, a feature restricted to SQL Server 2000.This version achieves similar results without using UDFs or creating any other permanent objects. It therefore works […]

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2003-05-28

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Script to determine if all chars are same in field

This script is actually based on a script by epol29.  That was titled 'Script to count the number of Yes/No in the string', which I found to be an awsome script.Anyway, this script uses the same logic to deterimine if all of the characters in a field are the same.  For example, 1111111, aaaaaaaa, 4444, […]

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2003-05-19

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