Technical Article

Last_Date_Of_Month

Get the Last date of the month for the given month and year In response to a post By: Anonymous - Posted: 2/16/2004 3:31:12 AM (Stored Procedure).... Thought that there should be a more efficient / functional way of doing this. And here it is. Of course, a function would probably be more efficient, and […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2006-11-16 (first published: )

115 reads

Technical Article

Process XML against XSL template and save output

Given SQL text (@sql_txt) that will return XML data, run that XML data against an XSL template (@xsl_file_nm), and save the output to the specified outputfile (@out_file_nm). If @xsl_file_nm is not specified, then output is just saved as XML.This script is very usefull, but not secure. One could easily overload any of the script input […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-09-17

300 reads

Blogs

Are you getting value from your reporting?

By

Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...

The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central

By

It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...

Git forked

By

Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Microsoft Security Changes and SQL...

Expanding into Print

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Expanding into Print

Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem

By Chandan Shukla

Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
Assume preview features are enabled.

See possible answers