Comments for SQL Tips by Namwar Rizvi

Comment on Calculating last day of the month by TSQL by Tim

Tim — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:10:05 +0000

Thank you. I uses a similar query before, but I knew that Google would be faster than looking through my notes. ps. You were on top of my Google search “sql calculate last day of the month.”

I needed to find the last day of the month for the StartDate a year from now, but that part was easy, just add a year to the Start Date variable before you start your calculation:

SELECT DateAdd(day, -1, DateAdd( month, DateDiff(month , 0, dateadd(yy, 1, @m_StartDate))+1 , 0))

Comment on Number padding in TSQL by Travis Riffle

Travis Riffle — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:19:21 +0000

This worked great, if you need leading zeros for say 10 characters, but your max is actually 6, you can always just manually set the max to 10! I did that in my case and it worked great.

Declare @m_maxLength int
Select
@m_maxLength=8
from Unit

update Unit
set EndUserNumber = Replicate(‘0′,@m_maxLength-Len(convert(varchar,EndUserNumber)))
+convert(varchar,EndUserNumber)

Comment on Changing the Object Schema in SQL Server 2005 by gelay

gelay — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:17:35 +0000

Alhamdulillah

thanks for the tips. very helpful.

Comment on SQL Server Client Tools Setup Fails due to MSXML 6 by How to Install SQL Server 2005 Client Tools? « SQL Tips by Namwar Rizvi

How to Install SQL Server 2005 Client Tools? « SQL Tips by Namwar Rizvi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:21:50 +0000

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Comment on Calculate Difference between current and previous rows…..CTE and Row_Number() rocks! by fabio

fabio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:00:54 +0000

Hi , Ramesh
dou remember this query? have you resolved the problem?

Query: Calulate the temperature difference on Temperature column

Output should be:

DayId DayName Temperature DifferenceTemperature
——– ———— ——————- ——————
SN Sunday 32 6
MN Monday 39 -3
TU Tuesday 36 9
WD Wednesday 45 -4
TH Thursday 41 6
FR Friday 47 -7
SA Satruday 40 null

Please explain the query

Comment by Ramesh — May 23, 2008 @ 11:12 am | Reply

Comment on TSQL Function to encode HTML Text by Sunil

Sunil — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:40:59 +0000

Good post! Just what I was looking for.

Comment on TSQL Function to convert decimal to Hex, Octal or any other base by Lars

Lars — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:47:25 +0000

Great!

Do you happen to have a decode function? i.e. fn_BaseToDec?

Comment on Insert Script Generator by Bob

Bob — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:12:46 +0000

This script doesn’t work;

1.) all the quotes display wrongly in the HTML on this page, meaning copy & paste is a no no.
2.) If you try and find/replace the quotes out and replace with the correct single & double quotes, it still throws errors when running in an attempt to create the stored proc against a SQL Server data source.

Offer the (working) script as a downloadable archive (zip/rar) with a readme perhaps? It will enable people to at least use the script, which does offer quite a useful piece of functionality!

-Bob (Pseud)

Comment on Optimized solution of Paging by using Count(*) OVER() functionality by Yash

Yash — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:29:41 +0000

ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY [RandomField] DESC) is anyways going to give you the total number of records then why would you do for Count(*) OVER()?

Comment on Generate rows for missing dates by Andy Bauch

Andy Bauch — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:21:47 +0000

This example was extremely helpful. Thanks!