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The Lazy Programmer
There once was a lazy programmer who did nothing but sat around reading the newspaper at work. Lazy programmer would listen to audio books, surf the web for amazon deals, and watch youtube videos....
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FLAT
There are lots of methods to flatten a table. You can cursor at it (loop or use a cte, temp table and build your string), but t-sql is a language of sets and anytime you move away from groups or sets...
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Quick and dirty: Sql Filestream Object – creating, inserting, displaying
There are a lot of sites on setting up the filestream object in sql (I’ll let you discover that yourself), but I had a hard time finding a good source of information for utilizing it in a web page....
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Error converting data type numeric to decimal
Simple one. So simple, I shouldn’t have spent so much time trying to figure it out. So simple, I should probably quit anything that boasts of ‘information’ and ‘technology’.’ But alas, my pride is...
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Pivot Without Aggregation or Aggravation
I needed to flip my data horizontally. I didn’t need to aggregate anything. I was just working with a user that wanted the data to look different. Instead of this Car Tire Car Window Car Wipers Car...
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If you can’t obtain dbschema_tables_info
After creation of a new linked server (from 2008 sql box to 2000 sql box). I tested my select query and received Cannot obtain the schema rowset "DBSCHEMA_TABLES_INFO" for OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10"...
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Database Info in HTML format
Someone gave this to me back in 2007. I don’t know the source. It doesn’t completely work and needs some fixing, but it gives you everything you ever wanted to know about a database in html format –...
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Write to a text file without xp_cmdshell
There are dangers of xp_cmdshell. If turned on you can execute some pretty nasty commands. Combine that with a poorly written dynamic sql procedure and you have a hackers delight. It’s a window to...
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What’s the umbrella for? (part 2)
Earlier I wrote a post (What’s the umbrella for?) It seems like I’ve written a couple of posts regarding searching in the database for objects with text in them. Here is the latest way I’ve done it....
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Special Characters
It might be hard to work with special characters in your data. For instance, doing a replace on a field that looks like it has a blank (but is actually is carriage return) won’t yield the results you...
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