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Yesterday we had very first SQL Bangalore User Group meeting and I was asked following question right after the session. This question is about to Find Weekend and Weekdays from Datetime in SQL Server 2012.
This is the 4th episode of memory lane. Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here with additional notes below it. My favorite article this week is an article discussing cursor and log file. Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane.
The need of developer changes as geographic location changes. In SQL Server there are various functions to aid this requirement. There is function CAST, which developers have been using for a long time as well function CONVERT which is a more enhanced version of CAST. In the latest version of SQL Server 2012 a new function FORMAT is introduced as well to display datetime in specific format.
Here is the question I received in email.
“Pinal,
I am writing a function where we need to generate random password. While writing T-SQL I faced following issue. Everytime I tried to use RAND() function in my User Defined Function I am getting following error: