New code library site
I created a basic code library site to host all of the code snippets I’ve gathered and/or created over time. Go here to visit the site. It’s pretty basic and empty right now, I’ll dress it up a little...
View ArticleReturning the Nth weekday in SQL…and in InfoPath
Ok, after much research I found a forum that had a posting that demonstrated how to get the Nth chosen weekday of a month using T-SQL. Here’s the code: DECLARE @date datetimeDECLARE @weekday intDECLARE...
View ArticleQuery AD using T-SQL
So I’m working on a small interface that needs to check certain computers in our enterprise for file changes, and fortunately these specific computers are kept in a group nested inside our AD...
View ArticleLong SQL query time and account permissions
My good friend @MichaelPerillo and I were recently discussing the possible cause for a SQL query to take an excessively long time, even though proper measures had been taken to ensure performance...
View Article24 Hours of PASS – March 15-16 2011
The 24 Hours of PASS is returning March 15th-16th 2011, and they’re looking for feedback on which sessions to include! If you’d like to participate, the link to the survey can be found here. I chose...
View Article24 Hours of PASS registration open
Registration is open for 24 hours of PASS in March! Go to http://bit.ly/fMzarY to register. This one is “Celebrating Women in Technology” and has some great sessions lined up, including discussions on...
View ArticleGet first occurance of a character in SQL
When I need to know the first (or any) occurrence of a character, I’m used to saying something like InStr() for VB or ASP, or String.IndexOf() in .Net, but when I tried to do something like this today...
View ArticleValidating email string without using sp_OACreate in T-SQL
I wanted a way to validate that an email address in a SQL query was well-formed, and found a lot of resources suggesting to create a scalar function that invokes sp_OACreate among others, and return a...
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