2008-07-01
3,805 reads
T-SQL
The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL
How you use dynamic SQL, when you should - and when you should not.
2008-07-01
4,990 reads
2008-06-30
4,707 reads
Calculating Age
T-SQL calculations can get tricky at times, and since you often work with multiple rows, it's good to be exact in your data manipulation. New author Lynn Pettis brings us an article about calculating ages.
2009-03-13 (first published: 2008-06-30)
25,993 reads
2008-06-27
5,092 reads
2008-06-23
4,639 reads
T-SQL Data Processing
This article from new author Peter Kierstead shows us how to implement your own "fuzzy" dedup/merge logic without resorting to RBAR in T-SQL.
2008-06-23
8,014 reads
The Ultimate Foreign Key Researcher
Searches for actual and potential foreign key columns for a given primary key reference.
2009-10-12 (first published: 2008-06-20)
2,517 reads
2008-06-20
4,353 reads
2008-06-18
4,360 reads
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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