Parsing HTML to SQL using SQLDOM
It is simple to parse HTML directly to SQL, manipulate, and render back to HTML using SQLDOM
2019-07-15 (first published: 2012-04-16)
19,215 reads
David Rueter
Rendering PDFs Natively in SQL
How to render PDF documents using SQL CLR. Also a good introduction on creating SQL CLR functions.
2015-08-21 (first published: 2013-05-08)
28,731 reads
SQL for 8-year-old Math…But Be Careful of Implicit Type Conversion
How we can use SQL to solve a math problem published in The Guardian...but with a caution about implicit type conversion.
2015-07-14
7,496 reads
Tracking Database DDL Changes with SQLVer
Presents an open-source T-SQL based version tracking system for MSSQL
2015-01-22
7,863 reads
Dealing with the Evil of FMTONLY from SSRS
SSRS continues to use SET FMTONLY ON even though it has many problems. How can we cope?
2014-12-23
10,522 reads
Deploying CLR Assemblies with T-SQL
Learn how to simplify deployment and maintenance of SQL CLR assemblies by using T-SQL instead of Visual Studio.
2013-05-07
10,894 reads
Geocode Addresses in T-SQL
Geocode, look up postal codes, and perform validation for street address information natively T-SQL
2010-05-19
38,684 reads
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers