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Month: July 2012

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Split comma separated name (last, first)

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

The following example will return two columns (first name, last name) based on a single, concatenated, comma separated name. table —— name —— Chin, Cheryl Frank, Robert SELECT RIGHT([name], LEN([name]) – CHARINDEX(’,’, [name]) – 1) AS [first], LEFT([name], CHARINDEX(’,’, [name])-1)… Continue Reading →

SQL Server, String, T-SQL
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Errors for columns with alias

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

You may receive the following errors if you incorrectly alias your column names: Invalid column name No column was specified Check to make sure that your column names are encased in brackets and are not encased by quotes. Incorrect SELECT… Continue Reading →

SQL Server, T-SQL
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Simple string splitting for insertion

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DECLARE @string varchar(50), @execSql varchar(1000) SET @string = ‘I like kittens’   SET @execSql = ‘INSERT INTO table (column) SELECT ”’ SET @execSql = @execSql + REPLACE(@string, ‘ ‘, ”’ UNION ALL… Continue Reading →

SQL Server, T-SQL
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Simple function for comparing software versions

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Norbert Krupa

Traditional arithmetic would tell you that 5.1 = 5.10. However, arithmetic can’t compare software versions such as 5.1 to 5.10, since 5.10 is the ‘newer’ version. The function below receives two version numbers and returns which of the two is… Continue Reading →

function, SQL Server, T-SQL

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