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While Sql Server provides functions to manipulate datetime data types(DateDiff, DateAdd etc.) they don't have(as far as I know) functions to manipulate time. Very useful when computing time differences. In the past I had to manually datediff parts of the time(hh:mm:ss) which wasn't scalable especially...
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Previously jokiz bloged about this one , I'd like to add further. The same issue cropped up again in the forums although not the exactly the same as jokiz's experience, this one could really give you hours of head scratching. Previously I was amazed that dynamic ORDER was possible with T-SQL without...
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Today I was preparing the DB for an implementation of one our module app, I brought along a soon to be production DB . The DB itself was not that big (5GB), however restoring it was taking alot of time. Normally I wouldn't worry about it, but I was on time constraints and the Establishment is working...
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Didn't you know that the following statement is now valid for Sql Server 2005 as criteria for a column with bit data type? SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE Processed = 'true' The engine is now intelligent enough to implicitly convert it to SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE Processed = 1 More readable, imo. Too bad...