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Decrypt Stored Procedures, Views and Triggers

This SP will decrypt Stored Procedures, Views or Triggers that were encrypted using "with encryption" There are 2 versions: one for SP's only and the other one for SP's, triggers and views version 1: INPUT: object name (stored procedure, view or trigger) version 2: INPUT: object name (stored procedure, view or trigger), object type('T'-trigger, 'P'-stored […]

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2002-12-06

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Function to express numeric value in words

There is a requirement here to take a number (such as 124995) and express it in words.  We needed a function to do this, as it would be used in an existing document generation system.I have developed the enclosed two functions to do this.  Note that the function does not, currently, cater for negative numbers, […]

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2002-12-06

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Stored Proc with optional parameters

Sometimes people want a Stored Proc with optional parameters. A lot of times people will use a coalesce for this. The problem with optional paremeters is that the query plan will never be an exact mach for that specific query. ( You never know what paremeters are filled..... )To solve this problem look at the […]

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2002-12-06

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123 TSQL functions

This is a collection of 123 TSQL functions for professional, academic or learning purposes. There are many conversions hexadecimal/octal/binary/Roman numerals, mathematical functions such as hyperbolic, logic and trigonometric. Combinatorial functions such as combinations, permutations (factorial), arrangements. Other interesting functions include turning a number into plain English, Morse code, EBCDIC and vice-versa, Levenshtein Distance (linguistics), encryption, […]

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2002-12-05

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zPad() - add leading zeros to a number

This user-defined function converts a number to character format and adds leading zeroes to pad the field to a specified length.  useful for displaying SSNs or other numeric fields where the leading 0's are significant but the field is stored as numeric.To use:select dbo.zPad(, )make sure your length includes an extra column for the sign.  […]

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2002-12-05

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Convert a number to words

This is a handy function that converts a  number (integer) into its word format.  This might be handy if you need to print a check formatted number in words.  Currently it supports an integer but it would be almost nothing to convert to support a bigint or decimal.The components are1) a table named PlaceValue that […]

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2002-12-04

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If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.

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