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.
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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 look more into 2k8) Even in REXX we had some nice features…like MASK, WORD, WORDS, etc.
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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 will then replace a quote (") with an empty sting Guess you could automate this, but this is simple enough.
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"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 looking for, but if you employ a partitioned view, then yes, it's doable cut and paste the sample code to see it in action USE Northwind GO CREATE TABLE myTable99 (Col1 int PRIMARY KEY CHECK (Col1 BETWEEN 1 AND 10), Col2 varchar(50)) CREATE TABLE myTable98 (Col1 int PRIMARY KEY CHECK (Col1 BETWEEN 11 AND 20), Col2 varchar(50)) GO INSERT INTO myTable99(Col1, Col2) SELECT 1, 'x' UNION ALL SELECT 2, 'y' UNION ALL SELECT 3, 'z' INSERT INTO myTable98(Col1, Col2) SELECT 11, 'x' UNION ALL SELECT 12, 'y' UNION ALL SELECT 13, 'z' GO CREATE VIEW myView99 AS SELECT Col1, Col2 FROM myTable99 UNION ALL SELECT Col1, Col2 FROM myTable98 GO SELECT * FROM myView99 UPDATE myView99 SET Col2 = 'x002548' WHERE Col2 = 'z' SELECT * FROM myView99 /* DROP VIEW myView99 DROP TABLE myTable99, myTable98 */
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....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 entire family tree from top to bottom.
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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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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 pulled some different points together differently here than Vyas did, and at the very least, I hope I made my feeling clear about a program that has to loop over 2 million times.
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EDIT: The script has been repaired and paired down.
Basically this "solution" assigns a derived value to each entity...which I called codex for lack of better term. Each Child inherits their Parents Codex node signature.
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Like this
SELECT o.name, t.TABLE_NAME, c.text FROM syscomments c JOIN sysobjects o ON c.id = o.id JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables t ON c.text LIKE '%'+t.TABLE_NAME+'%'
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Peter DeBetta, Microsoft MVP - S
2006-09-22
re: How do I find all the tables referenced by Stored Procedures or Functions Actually, that isn't entirely reliable if the code of the procedure is longer than 8000 characters.
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Every so often, someone asks, "How do I know who executed a SQL Statement against my database".
Well you can either have SQL Profiler running all the time (which can be very expensive), or you can use Lumingent's Log Explorer.
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A director came to me asking if a set based approach could be used to find the fallout for trades and receipts. Even though they handed the work off already. The developer used COBOL to compare the 2 file and did "spin-up" processing to match a trade to a receipt.
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This question comes up quit often. For example in this thread from dbForums SQL Server forum they are looking to do just that.
The simplest answer is to create a history for every table, then create a trigger for each that will move the entire row of the before image information into history when a DELETE or UPDATE Modification occurs.
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EDIT: Ok, so as is pointed out in the comments below SQL Server comes with a very powerful XML Parser already OPENXML and sp_xml_preparedocument. I posted a code snipet in the comments I got from BOL so you can see how it works.
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...was recently asked at SQLTeam
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=68461
This is what I would do
USE NorthwindGO
CREATE VIEW EXPORT_ORDERSASSELECT 1 AS ROW_ORDER, 'HEADER ' + CONVERT(char(25),GetDate()) AS Data_LineUNION ALLSELECT 2 AS ROW_ORDER, COALESCE(CONVERT(char(15),OrderID),'') + COALESCE(CustomerID,'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(15),EmployeeID),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(25),OrderDate),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(25),RequiredDate),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(25),ShippedDate),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(15),ShipVia),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(15),Freight),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(80),ShipName),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(120),ShipAddress),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(30),ShipCity),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(30),ShipRegion),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(20),ShipPostalCode),'') + COALESCE(CONVERT(char(30),ShipCountry),'') AS Data_Line FROM OrdersUNION ALLSELECT 3 AS ROW_ORDER, 'TRAILER ' + CONVERT(char(25),GetDate()) + CONVERT(char(15),COUNT(*)) AS Data_Line FROM OrdersGO
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What? Huh? This can't be...can it? Well this person seemed to think so:
http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?t=1219537
I didn't think that this was possible...and, well, it isn't...so I am posting this for future reference.
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EDIT: Seems to be a lot of formatting question. Thought I'd turn this into a collection of formatting tips. I'll list an “Index“ here which will reference the code and “solutions“
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As much as I try to disuade people from building processes that might come back to haunt them later, this one always seems to come up. So I gave in, I figure it might be useful from an admin perspective at some point, so here it is.
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The following stored procedure will take a supplied file path, create an archive folder within the supplied folder path, and move everything in to that folder to basically clear out the base folder.
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Well, the short answer is you don't. The modified answer is that you can use the code listed in this post. The longer answer is that you can use xp_cmdshell to do this (Which is what the stored procedure in this post does), and must be either a member of the sysadmin account, or granted execution, say to a new role, and users can be placed in that role.
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I guess you could modify this to Extract whatever you want. Here's the thread with the original question. Now I'm not gonna say this is real effecient, but I thought it was a little clever.
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