Day of Week
To find the day of week, regardless of-SET DATEFIRST -SET DATEFORMAT -SET LANGUAGEThe first one is based on Zellers Congruence.The second one is a SQL server proprietary.
2002-04-05
481 reads
Scripts
Grant access to Public for all user objects
Grant access to Public for all user objects (tables, views, stored procedures).
2002-04-05
222 reads
Simulate Rownumber (a la Oracle?)
Shows how to return data with a "rownumber". Some unique column is needed.
2002-04-05
357 reads
Today with no time portion
How to get current day with the timeportion = 00:00:00.000.Works regardless of locale.
2002-04-05
445 reads
Finding the first day of the Month
This script derives the first day of the month and the last day of the previous month...
2002-04-04
447 reads
Get the Latest Currency Rate as at a date
Have you faced a situation where you want to have the latest currency rates available upto a particular date. Normally you may have to run sub queries but derived tables is the easiest way to do.
2002-04-04
291 reads
LastDayPreviousMonth / FirstDayCurrentMonth
The fastest way of getting LastDayPreviousMonth / FirstDayCurrentMonth
2002-04-04
199 reads
Sample Script Header
Sample script header to use to describe a stored procedure. This is a piece of the one I use but needs modification for each environment.
2002-04-04
1,208 reads
Pass several sets of parameters to run stored proc
This procedure will let you execute existing stored procedure with several sets of multiple parameters like: exec _ParamSplit_SP 'ColorSP', "258,'RED';367,'BLUE';125,'GREEN'",";" it will be the same as exec ColorSP 258,'RED' exec ColorSP 367,'BLUE' exec ColorSP 125,'GREEN'Created for SQL 7
2002-04-03
862 reads
Calculate End/Beginning of Last/Current/Next Month
The script calculates the end and the beginning of the last, the current and the next months.
2002-04-01
994 reads
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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