DECLARE@Stage TABLE ( RowID INT IDENTITY(0, 1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, Data VARCHAR(90), Section INT )   INSERT@Stage ( Data ) EXECxp_cmdshell 'ipconfig /all'   DECLARE@Section INT   SET@Section = 0   UPDATE @Stage SET@Section = Section = CASE WHENASCII(LEFT(Data, 1)) > 32 THEN @Section + 1 ELSE@Section END   SELECTMAX(CASE WHEN x.
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  CREATEPARTITION FUNCTION pfOrderDate ( DATETIME ) ASRANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES ( '20000101', '20010101', '20020101' ) GO   CREATEPARTITION SCHEME psYak ASPARTITION pfOrderDate ALLTO ([PRIMARY]) GO   CREATETABLE Orders ( OrderID INT NOT NULL, CustomerID VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL, OrderDate DATETIME NOT NULL ) ONpsYak(OrderDate) GO   CREATECLUSTERED INDEX IX_OrderID ONOrders ( OrderID ) CREATENONCLUSTERED INDEX IX_OrderDate ONOrders ( OrderDate ) INCLUDE( OrderID, CustomerID ) GO  INSERTOrders ( OrderID, CustomerID, OrderDate ) SELECT1, 'Peso', '20011225' UNIONALL SELECT2, 'Jennie', '20020314'  SELECTOrderID, OrderDate FROMOrders WHEREOrderDate = '20011225'   SELECTOrderID, OrderDate FROMOrders WHEREOrderID = 1   DROPTABLE Orders DROPPARTITION SCHEME psYak DROPPARTITION FUNCTION pfOrderDate  
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  The last two days I have been involved in a rather interesting discussion.  The original poster wanted a fast way to get missing date ranges in a series of date pairs.
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  I just played around with some different techniques to fetch relevant data from XML content.
 DECLARE@XMLString XML, @Search VARCHAR(50)   SELECT@XMLString = ' <Customers> <Customer> <FirstName>Kevin</FirstName> <LastName>Goff</LastName> <City type="aca">Camp Hill</City> </Customer> <Customer> <FirstName>Steve</FirstName> <LastName>Goff</LastName> <City type="acb">Philadelphia</City> </Customer> </Customers>', @Search = 'Camp Hill'   -- Get all customers living in Camp Hill SELECTcust.
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  This is an updated version for SQL 2005 and later to search all code for a specific keyword  SELECT p.RoutineName,  'EXEC sp_helptext ' + QUOTENAME(p.RoutineName) AS [Exec]  FROM (  SELECT OBJECT_NAME(so.
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  I just helped a guy here http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=98346 with schema and thought that someone could benefit from this code
exec
  sp_MSforeachtable"PRINT '? modify'; ALTER SCHEMA new_schema TRANSFER ?; IF @@ERROR = 0 PRINT '?
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  This is what I pondered about today. Maybe I also will have some time to test it.
 CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.uspPaginate  (  @PageNumber INT,  @RecordsPerPage TINYINT = 50  )  AS   SET NOCOUNT ON   DECLARE @MaxRows INT   SET @MaxRows = @PageNumber * @RecordsPerPage   SELECT SomeColumns  FROM (  SELECT TOP (@RecordsPerPage)  SomeColumns  FROM (  SELECT TOP (@MaxRows)  SomeColumns  FROM YourTable  ORDER BY SomeCase ASC/DESC  )  ORDER BY SomeCase DESC/ASC  )  ORDER BY SomeCase ASC/DESC  Topic is here http://www.
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  I worked with this topic recent weekend and posted the final functions here http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=97454 The general idea is to have a generic purge functionality.
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Jason
 2008-02-16
re: Finding table reference levels and simulating cascading deletes I understand why some people might want this, but I think it is truly a bad idea to even do something like this.
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  After a good nights sleep when almost all pieces fit together here weblogs.sqlteam.com/peterl/archive/2008/02/06/Curiosity-found.aspx
I realized this morning that this behaviour also explains why there are gaps in identity sequences when inserting a record that violates a contraint.
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  CREATEFUNCTION dbo.fnSplitType ( @Data VARCHAR(200), @PartSize TINYINT ) RETURNSVARCHAR(8000) AS BEGIN DECLARE @Result VARCHAR(8000), @Alpha TINYINT, @OldPosition SMALLINT, @NewPosition SMALLINT  SELECT @Result = '', @Alpha = 1, @OldPosition = 1, @NewPosition = 1  IF @Data LIKE '[0-9]%' SELECT @Result = REPLICATE(' ', @PartSize), @Alpha = 0  WHILE @NewPosition < LEN(@Data) SELECT @NewPosition = CASE @Alpha WHEN 1 THEN PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', SUBSTRING(@Data, @OldPosition, 8000)) ELSE PATINDEX('%[a-z]%', SUBSTRING(@Data, @OldPosition, 8000)) END, @NewPosition = CASE @NewPosition WHEN 0 THEN LEN(@Data) ELSE @OldPosition + @NewPosition - 2 END, @Result = @Result + CASE @Alpha WHEN 1 THEN LEFT(LTRIM(SUBSTRING(@Data, @OldPosition, @NewPosition - @OldPosition + 1)) + REPLICATE(' ', @PartSize), @PartSize) ELSE RIGHT(REPLICATE(' ', @PartSize) + RTRIM(SUBSTRING(@Data, @OldPosition, @NewPosition - @OldPosition + 1)), @PartSize) END, @Alpha = 1 - @Alpha, @OldPosition = @NewPosition + 1  RETURNRTRIM(@Result) END   Here is the code to test with   DECLARE@Sample TABLE (Info VARCHAR(200))  INSERT@Sample SELECT'S0C 4610' UNIONALL SELECT'S9C 113' UNIONALL SELECT'S1C 462' UNIONALL SELECT'112' UNIONALL SELECT'113' UNIONALL SELECT'MM20BC' UNIONALL SELECT'SSC 113' UNIONALL SELECT'SSC 201' UNIONALL SELECT'SSC 461' UNIONALL SELECT'SSC 4610' UNIONALL SELECT'SSC 462' UNIONALL SELECT'SSCPZ202C' UNIONALL SELECT'Z1' UNIONALL SELECT'Z100' UNIONALL SELECT'ZZ'  SELECTInfo FROM@Sample ORDERBY dbo.
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  I didn't read this until I noticed Mladens link. http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jhermiz/archive/2007/12/17/What-If-The-Dream-Company.aspx
 
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Jon
 2007-12-17
re: Thanks Jon! Definately well deserved!
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  Today, I was involved in an interesting discussion.
Someone asked for a moving average solution. I joined the discussion late. The previous solutions and mine were all set-based and very slow.
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  declare
@sample table(p geography)  insert@sample selectgeography::STGeomFromText('POINT(12.65100 65.34900)', 4619) unionall selectgeography::STGeomFromText('POINT(35.65100 23.34900)', 4619) unionall selectgeography::STGeomFromText('POINT(64.65100 12.34900)', 4619)  DECLARE@h geography  SET@h = geography::STGeomFromText('POINT(47.65100 -122.34900)', 4619)  SELECTp.STDistance(@h) / 1000 as[km]  from@sample
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  In this topic http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49926I gave a suggestion how to get a more detailed error message when working with OPENROWSET.
But the same thinking is applicable for LINKED SERVER and other "outer referenced" data retreival methods.
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  -- Prepare sample data DECLARE@Accounts TABLE (AccountNumber CHAR(11), ParentAccountNumber CHAR(11))  INSERT@Accounts SELECT'100-000-000', NULLUNION ALL SELECT'100-001-000', '100-000-000' UNIONALL SELECT'100-002-000', '100-000-000' UNIONALL SELECT'100-002-001', '100-002-000' UNIONALL SELECT'100-002-002', '100-002-000'  DECLARE @Transactions TABLE (AccountNumber CHAR(11), Amount MONEY)  INSERT@Transactions SELECT'100-001-000', 1000.
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  Let’s play with the new OUTPUT operator!<o:p></o:p>
 -- Setup TableA & TableB
CREATETABLE#TableA
(
i INT
)
 
CREATETABLE#TableB
(
i INT
)
 
CREATETABLE#TableC
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  Sometimes you have a denormalized table with several BIT columns used as flags.
Say you want to select every row that has at least one flag set. That's easy.
SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Flag1 = 1 OR Flag2 = 1 OR Flag3 = 1.
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  MERGE Production.ProductInventory AS [pi]USING (  SELECT ProductID,  SUM(OrderQty) AS OrderQty FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail AS sod  INNER JOIN Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh ON sod.SalesOrderID = soh.SalesOrderID  WHERE soh.OrderDate = GETDATE() GROUP BY ProductID  ) AS src (ProductID, OrderQty) ON src.
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