2018-11-20
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T-SQL
T-SQL Decommenter Part II
Demonstration of the T-SQL Decommenter removing comments from a sample T-SQL batch.
2018-11-15
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2018-11-08
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2018-11-07
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2018-10-19
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2018-10-11
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Conditionally Order By Different Column
Order records based on a different column depending on which absolute value is greater.
2018-10-01 (first published: 2018-09-26)
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2018-09-13
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T-SQL to compress (shorten) IPv6 address
Didn't find anything, so hope this will help someone with similar need.
Note I did a similar set-based version, and unless the input is more towards non-zeros in all eight 2-byte fields, the set-based performs not as well
2018-09-19 (first published: 2018-09-12)
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2018-09-06
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers