SQL SERVER – Introduction to CLR – Simple Example of CLR Stored Procedure

CLR is abbreviation of Common Language Runtime. In SQL Server 2005 and later version of it database objects can be created which are created in CLR. Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers can be coded in CLR. CLR is faster than T-SQL in many cases. CLR is mainly used to accomplish task…
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SQL SERVER – Retrieve – Select Only Date Part From DateTime – Best Practice – Part 2

A year ago I wrote post about SQL SERVER – Retrieve – Select Only Date Part From DateTime – Best Practice where I have discussed two different methods of getting datepart from datetime. Method 1: SELECT DATEADD(D, 0, DATEDIFF(D, 0, GETDATE())) Method 2: SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),GETDATE(),111) I have summarized my post…
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SQLAuthority News – Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group Meeting – October 2008

Tomorrow is third Saturday of the Month and every third Saturday we have Ahmedabad User Group Meeting. Our user group is growing and getting interesting. Everybody who attended last months User Group (UG) Meeting realized that how important it is to attend UG meetings. UG President Jacob Sebastian (SQL Server…
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SQL SERVER – Get Numeric Value From Alpha Numeric String – UDF for Get Numeric Numbers Only

SQL is great with String operations. Many times, I use T-SQL to do my string operation. Let us see User Defined Function, which I wrote few days ago, which will return only Numeric values from AlphaNumeric values. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.udf_GetNumeric (@strAlphaNumeric VARCHAR(256)) RETURNS VARCHAR(256) AS BEGIN DECLARE @intAlpha INT SET @intAlpha =…
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