2009-10-26
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2009-10-26
4,495 reads
To find date at nth occurrence of a weekday in a month and year
2009-09-07 (first published: 2009-09-01)
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Continuing with his series on changes in SQL Server 2008, Arshad Ali takes a look at table enhancements and new data types.
2010-03-12 (first published: 2009-07-27)
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In the first of a series of articles on the tricks of tackling temporal data in SQL, Joe Celko discusses SQL's temporal data types and agonizes over the fact that, although there are ANSI/ISO Standards for temporal operations in SQL, every vendor has something different.
2008-12-31
1,141 reads
I need to write a function to determine if particular year is a leap year (i.e. February contains 29 days rather than 28 days). I know that there are various rules for calculating leap years. Is there an easy way to figure this out? Can you provide an example or two to validate various years?
2008-07-14
5,755 reads
This article is going to cover the newly introduced data types in SQL Server 2008 July CTP, and will specifically discuss the DATETIME functions.
2008-02-18
4,431 reads
Finding missing data in a sequence of numbers or dates is a common request of DBAs. Regular author Jacob Sebastian brings us a new article that shows just how you can do this.
2008-02-06
8,447 reads
Older versions of SQL Server had only one datatype to store both the date and time values. In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduces a set of new datatypes that store date and time individually, and both date and time together.
2008-01-21
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In SQL Server 2008 we get a new DATE date type that allows you to store a date without a time.
2007-12-18
4,179 reads
A set of user defined functions used to calculate the number of business or working hours (excluding the non working hours) that have passed since a certain point of time.
2011-09-21 (first published: 2007-11-20)
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In the modern data-centric landscape, SQL stands out as the dominant tool. It's essential...
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Thanks to everyone that came to my talks. Slides are below. Best Practices for...
By Steve Jones
I can’t remember how I heard about Small Data SF 2024, but it caught...
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