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Extract parts of the strings from the SQL results directly by using SQL's substring-extraction API functions

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.

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2023-05-09 (first published: )

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Python 3 Script for Generating SQL Insert Statements from CSV Data

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.

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2023-05-08 (first published: )

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Converting To/From User Friendly Trigesimal Geocodes

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 […]

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2023-03-30 (first published: )

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Checking the Error Log III

If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?

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