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SQL SERVER – Remove Duplicate Characters From a String

December 30, 2007

Follow up of my previous article of Remove Duplicate Chars From String here is another great article written by Madhivanan where similar solution is suggested with alternate method of Number table approach. Check out Remove duplicate characters from a string Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

SQL SERVER – Do Not Store Images in Database – Store Location of Images (URL)

December 13, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Interview Questions and Answers, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Database, SQL String

Just a day ago I received phone call from my friend in Bangalore. He asked me What do I think of storing images in database and what kind of datatype he should use? I have very strong opinion about this issue. I suggest to store the location of the images…

SQL SERVER – UDF – Remove Duplicate Chars From String

December 5, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

Duplicate Records, SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String

Few days ago, I received following wonderful UDF from one of this blog reader. This UDF is written for specific purpose of removing duplicate chars string from one large string. Virendra Chauhan, author of this UDF is working as DBA in Lutheran Health Network. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.REMOVE_DUPLICATE_INSTR (@datalen_tocheck INT,@string VARCHAR(255))…

SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Insert Carriage Return and New Line Feed in Code

August 22, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL String

Very simple and very effective. We use all the time for many reasons – formatting, while creating dynamically generated SQL to separate GO command from other T-SQL, saving some user input text to database etc. Let us learn about T-SQL Script to Insert Carriage Return and New Line Feed in Code.

SQL SERVER – 2005 Collation Explanation and Translation – Part 2

July 14, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Collation, SQL Scripts, SQL String

Following function return all the available collation of SQL Server 2005. My previous article about the SQL SERVER – 2005 Collation Explanation and Translation. SELECT * FROM sys.fn_HelpCollations() Result Set: (only few of 1011 records) Name Description Latin1_General_BIN Latin1-General, binary sort Latin1_General_BIN2 Latin1-General, binary code point comparison sort Latin1_General_CI_AI Latin1-General,…

SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : Server: Msg 131, Level 15, State 3, Line 1 The size () given to the type ‘varchar’ exceeds the maximum allowed for any data type (8000)

June 30, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Error Messages, SQL String

Error: Server: Msg 131, Level 15, State 3, Line 1 The size () given to the type ‘varchar’ exceeds the maximum allowed for any data type (8000) When the the length is specified in declaring a VARCHAR variable or column, the maximum length allowed is still 8000. Fix/WorkAround/Solution: Use either…

SQL SERVER – Repeate String N Times Using String Function REPLICATE

June 25, 2007

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String

I came across this SQL String Function few days ago while searching for Database Replication. This is T-SQL Function and it repeats the string/character expression N number of times specified in the function. SELECT REPLICATE( ' https://blog.sqlauthority.com/ ' , 9 ) This repeats the string https://blog.sqlauthority.com/ to 9 times in…