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Interview Question of the Week #008 – Write Scripts to Convert String to Title Case or Proper Case

Just received a question in an email asking questions about how to Convert String:

“I just got out of the interview and I was asked to write scripts to convert a string to Title Case. I was also asked to refer to the website over here to validate my answer after I complete writing script.

Do you think it is not fair to ask such questions in an interview?”

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SQL SERVER – FIX – Error: 905, Severity: 21, State: 1 – Database ‘xxx’ cannot be started in this edition of SQL Server because it contains a partition function ‘xxx’.

Recently one of my blog reader contacted me via mail and told that after upgrading from Enterprise Evaluation Edition to Standard Edition, the database was not accessible. To troubleshoot, I have asked them to share SQL Server ERRORLOG. There are various ways to read Errorlog. Here is the method to…
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SQL SERVER – Quiz with DATEADD Function – SQL Puzzle

How many of us use some sort of date or datetime function when working with SQL Server? I cannot think of a single developer who would ever say they don’t work with datetime conversions in their application. Almost every application needs some manipulation of datetime datatypes. There are a number of pitfalls that can get into which we might not be aware. Here is a simple blog: Quiz with DATEADD Function that I would love to hear your views on what the output would be:

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