Need to proper case names? Want a quick way to reformat a series of words? This article examines a SQL approach to quickly proper casing all words in a field.
2026-02-03 (first published: 2001-10-24)
12,651 reads
Or how to query for a particular type of customer. This article examines how you may query for particular rows that match one condition, but may not match another.
2001-09-19
3,739 reads
This article presents a method of outputting the results of a query as a tab delimited text file using COM.
2001-07-20
6,583 reads
Ever had to calculate the number of business days between two dates? This article presents a way to solve this problem in T-SQL.
2001-07-18
13,008 reads
Xp_sendmail is a great utility that SQL Server provides in order to e-mail messages directly from SQL Server, by using a valid MAPI profile. However, its syntax is rather stringent. In this article by Kunal Das, he shows you how to send messages to a list of recipients generated by a query dynamically in T-SQL.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2001-07-16)
23,963 reads
The fifth part of Steve Jones's series on programming and manipulating strings in T-SQL dealing with STUFF.
2026-02-03 (first published: 2001-06-21)
10,925 reads
2001-06-15
7,459 reads
One of the keys to database performance if keeping your transactions as short as possible. In this article we will look at a couple of tricks using the CASE statement to perform multiple updates on a table in a single operation.
2001-06-04
10,714 reads
Sp_MSforeachdb gives a DBA the ability to cycle through every database in your catalog. Find out how to use it.
2001-05-31
13,787 reads
Is there such a thing as a task where you would not need a cursor? Hidden in the depths of the master database are a series of stored procedures that can replace some cursors with these one-liners.
2001-05-22
14,249 reads
By HeyMo0sh
Microsoft Fabric (not to be confused with the more general term “fabric” in DevOps)...
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this from digging into it yesterday,...
Hi Team, I am trying to refresh the Azure Synapse Dedicated pool from production...
hi everyone I am not sure how to write the query that will produce...
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers