Very neat. Very fast.
Found an old SQL Server 2008 installation where it runs just fine.
I do the New York Time Sudoku almost every day. It is slightly different...

This might point you in the right direction. 'Address' is the name of the table you are interested in.
use AdventureWorks
go
select *
from sys.all_columns c
 ...

1984 (no, not the one you're thinking about).

IBM PC

DOS 1.0 (sic)

First 360KB floppy disc.

Then 1.2MB floppy disc.

Then a little later I was able to buy and install a big board...

On occasion I do the Sudoku in the International New York Times. This version has four additional 3x3 squares (slightly gray) inside the 9x9 puzzle area. Thus instead of 27...

Maybe the birth of hadoop was motivated by the Netflix contest back in 2006.

I drove into this contest with immense passion and I remember doing lots of things with SQL.

But...

Can you name some good and concise web sites or books on this hadoop technology that you would recomend.

Has anyone ever done the reverse operation? I.e. a table from a web page saved to an html file loaded into a SQL Server table.

Luis,

Why doesn't the GroupsHistory table have a ClientId column?

Why this wierd hierarchy - which it really isn't? It's more like a series.

What has this got to do with sudoku?

Some time ago I saw sql code somewhere that solves the real sudoku puzzle.

Alan B.

How does your function stand up to a varchar(8000) column with an * at the beginning and end and all blanks in between?

Care to give us a hint on which feature we 'may NOT like'?

CELKO (5/5/2015)

Seeing this weird fiscal calendar really intrigues me - never seen or heard of this one.

I wonder how many different fiscal calendars there are out there in the real...

I too am totally surprised of the fact that I have never known this!

Pretty absurd this 'set dateformat' stuff.

But I'll now vote for 'yyyymmdd' when hard coding dates.

Eric M Russell (4/30/2015)

99999999 is always assumed by SQL and most programming languages to be in ISO...