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Deconstruct Text, word by word, into a single column
Why, I still didn't get an answer from the poster in this post. But with Rudy laying the ground work I came up with the following. Why anyone would need to do thids, I have no idea. I added a twist...
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3rd and 45? Drop back and Punt? Nah, Generate INSERTS
EDIT 2007/09/06: I've modified the sproc to change the dates to be formatted to 121 and stripped out all trailing spaces for char's So, we don't have DBArtisan, but I am very happy for my copy of...
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SET Versus SELECT (Or, Who Really Cares Anyway)
EDIT: As Tara points out: Vyas did this test quite some time ago: http://vyaskn.tripod.com/differences_between_set_and_select.htm Either I never read it, or I forgot I read it. Well hopefully I...
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What'dya mean I can't TRUNCATE Tables that have RI?
So, we've gotten into the business of sanitizing or scrambling sensitive production data for development environments. This is, for the most part, was the direction to do this for mainframe flat...
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Collecting Requirements For Key Information
I've been asked to assist (this time BEFORE Project initiation for a change) in the developmennt of a new application. The Business Liason/Tech group that is doing this has been collecting...
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Add Foreign Keys Back to the Database
"OK Brett, Now that I Removed all my Foreign Keys to Truncate the Data, Now What? I'm Hosed! Thanks a bunch" OK, Well....sorry to keep you hangng out there. But, if you followed the code in the...
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Alias to be or not to be
EDIT: This is bizzare..I ran multiple table joins, and reran it ovr and over, and the times are always different and one time one is faster than the othe and other times it's the other wway around....
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Because you're mine, I walk the line
....ummm, well, that "line" would be walking through a line in a family tree. I saw a post the other the day that asked, if I know a relative somewhere in a families "lineage", how can I find the...
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How can I update Multiple Tables at once
"CAN'T BE DONE" -- Crazy boy Well at first glance, that may very well be the answer, as in this thread: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=100207 Now, this might not be what the OP is...
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Replace a Character Anywhere in a DB
Ran across this thread http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=135575 And figured I'd post this. The code below will generate update statement for all tables that have a char data type. It...
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Parsing String in SQL Server Hack
Alrighty Then How to Parse a string in SQl...not always easy...I imagine it really shouldn't have been difficult for M$ to make some T-SQL extensions, but they didn't (or at least up to 2k5...gotta...
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DB2 OS/390 Database COPY and RESTORE
Hey there!!!!! In the SQL Server world, if you want to create a database on a same server instance, from an existing database, all you have to do is something like: RESTORE DATABASE <db_name>...
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Next Available Date
Saw a post the other day on SQLTeam. The OP Asked: "If I supply a Date, How can I get the next available date, that is not a holiday, and is not on the weekend." I came up with this hack...please...
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XML, SQL & DB2 V10
...or I guess it could be any platform.. Webcast/Conf Call on Monday...IBM Rep after 3 hours...I piped in... X002548: "ummm, excuse me, so are you saying that XML database models outperforms the...
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SET BASED Number Table Create Hack
Well...don't think I've seen this hack before..I guess you might call it a setbased way to create a numbers table. Who has done it this way before? USE [dba] GO CREATE TABLE n(n int) GO INSERT INTO...
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Deconstruct Text, word by word, into a single column
Why, I still didn't get an answer from the poster in this post. But with Rudy laying the ground work I came up with the following. Why anyone would need to do thids, I have no idea. I added a twist...
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3rd and 45? Drop back and Punt? Nah, Generate INSERTS
EDIT 2007/09/06: I've modified the sproc to change the dates to be formatted to 121 and stripped out all trailing spaces for char'sSo, we don't have DBArtisan, but I am very happy for my copy of...
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SET Versus SELECT (Or, Who Really Cares Anyway)
EDIT: As Tara points out:Vyas did this test quite some time ago: http://vyaskn.tripod.com/differences_between_set_and_select.htmEither I never read it, or I forgot I read it. Well hopefully I pulled...
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What'dya mean I can't TRUNCATE Tables that have RI?
So, we've gotten into the business of sanitizing or scrambling sensitive production data for development environments. This is, for the most part, was the direction to do this for mainframe flat...
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Collecting Requirements For Key Information
I've been asked to assist (this time BEFORE Project initiation for a change) in the developmennt of a new application. The Business Liason/Tech group that is doing this has been collecting...
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