Just a week ago, my Database Team member asked me what is the best way to only select date part from datetime. When ran following command it also provide the time along with the date.
SQL SERVER – UDF – Function to Display Current Week Date and Day – Weekly Calendar
In analytics section of our product I frequently have to display the current week dates with days. Week starts from Sunday. We display the data considering days as column and date and other values in column. If today is Friday June 8, 2007. We need script which can provides days…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – User Defined Functions (UDF) Limitations
UDF have its own advantage and usage but in this article we will see the limitation of UDF. Things UDF can not do and why Stored Procedure are considered as more flexible then UDFs. Stored Procedure are more flexibility then User Defined Functions(UDF). UDF has No Access to Structural and…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – 2005 Limiting Result Sets by Using TABLESAMPLE – Examples
Introduced in SQL Server 2005, TABLESAMPLE allows you to extract a sampling of rows from a table in the FROM clause. The rows retrieved are random and they are are not in any order. This sampling can be based on a percentage of number of rows. You can use TABLESAMPLE…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Script/Function to Find Last Day of Month
Following query will find the last day of the month. Query also take care of Leap Year. Script: DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date='2008-02-03' SELECT DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,@date)), DATEADD(m,1,@date)) AS LastDayOfMonth GO DECLARE @date DATETIME SET @date='2007-02-03' SELECT DATEADD(dd, -DAY(DATEADD(m,1,@date)), DATEADD(m,1,@date)) AS LastDayOfMonth GO ResultSet: LastDayOfMonth ----------------------- 2008-02-29 00:00:00.000 (1 row(s) affected)…
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SQL SERVER – Math Functions Available in SQL Server
The large majority of math functions is specific to applications using trigonometry, calculus, and geometry. This is very important and it is very difficult to have all of them together at place.
SQL SERVER – Fix: Error 130: Cannot perform an aggregate function on an expression containing an aggregate or a subquery
Fix: Error 130: Cannot perform an aggregate function on an expression containing an aggregate or a subquery Following statement will give the following error: “Cannot perform an aggregate function on an expression containing an aggregate or a subquery.” MS SQL Server doesn’t support it. USE PUBS GO SELECT AVG(COUNT(royalty)) RoyaltyAvg…
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