8 Ways to Export SQL Results To a Text File
This tip will show eight ways to export the results of a query to a text file.
2017-10-06 (first published: 2016-10-26)
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Data Mining Part 35: Text Mining using the term extraction tool
The following article will show how to extract terms occurrence from a SQL table.
2016-02-22
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Full Text Searches on Documents in FileTables
SQL Server's FileTable technology is an intriguing way of accomodating file-based text data in a database, and allowing for complex searches. As with most technologies, the best way of learning them is to try it out and experiment. Feodor shows how to set it up, add some sample data and set up full-text search.
2013-02-26
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Search for String in all columns
Find all columns containing a string value across all tables and schemas.
2012-11-07 (first published: 2012-10-12)
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Function to calculate and return age in text to closest minute between
Calculates and returns age in text to closest minute between 2 datetimes, eg: 2 Years, 4 Months, 12 Days, 4 Hours, 17 Minutes
2016-08-12 (first published: 2012-05-17)
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String Search
Search for a string value within columns of data types CHAR, NCHAR, NTEXT, NVARCHAR, TEXT, VARCHAR, XML.
2019-04-15 (first published: 2012-03-19)
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Generate alter datatype script for entire database
ntext, text, and image (Transact-SQL). This script will alter the data type from image to
varbinary(max) which is very much required as the data type is out
of support.
2011-11-28 (first published: 2011-11-14)
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Just for fun
Do you need to take your mind off of the SQL mess you are dealing with? Try my funny words generator.
2010-09-03 (first published: 2010-08-27)
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RE: Dynamic SQL problem
Don't make me feel < snip and switch to my online dictionary> embarrassed </snip>
2004-11-19
RE: DTS and Nulls - Active X
There are no restraints I am aware of ... fields are money or character. Note: I get the Isnull error for all fields. Are you sure I can use this command passing it the DTSSource()?
2004-09-15
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