An audit finding relating to production data, containing customer identifiable data, in a UAT environment, prompted this simple script, which completely scrambles data in such a way that the original value can not be reconstituted.
2023-05-24 (first published: 2023-05-19)
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If you need to extract a substring or create a longer string by combining multiple strings, there are a few methods you can use. To extract a specific portion of a string, you can utilize a substring-extraction function.
2023-05-09 (first published: 2023-05-05)
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This Python 3 script is designed to take CSV file data pasted into the csv_data variable and generate SQL insert statements that can be used to insert the data into a MySQL database. The script is easy to use and can save you a lot of time when working with large amounts of data.
2023-05-08 (first published: 2023-05-05)
5,685 reads
The Problem As a data professional, I have often wished that there was a short, simple, and universal code to enable finding a place on earth. Addresses are nice but require a government authority to build a road, name it, and number its locations, and standardize its entry / use, and then they are far […]
2023-03-30 (first published: 2023-03-23)
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2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-14)
614 reads
A quick script that removes leading zeros in a numeric stored as a string.
2022-12-30 (first published: 2022-12-26)
2,649 reads
An alternative for Microsoft's STRING_SPLIT function that will work on SQL Server 2012 and higher.
2022-12-19 (first published: 2021-03-05)
421 reads
Simplified latitude / longitude in 10 fixed bytes.
2022-10-26 (first published: 2022-10-21)
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2022-09-02 (first published: 2022-08-23)
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The Excel (365) "LET" formula below will return a formatted SQL Values Table "T1" that can be pasted into SSMS.
2022-04-06 (first published: 2022-03-29)
956 reads
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