DigitsOnlyEE and AlphaNumericOnly
A nasty fast way to remove non-numeric and non-alphanumeric characters from a string
2019-03-15 (first published: 2016-05-17)
3,292 reads
Michael Colling
PatReplace8K
This inline table valued function takes three parameters: @String, @Pattern and @Replace. It located the @pattern in @string and replaces it with @replace.
2017-03-24 (first published: 2015-05-16)
2,420 reads
New T-SQL Fixed Width "Splitter"
A brand new tally table based, fixed width "splitter" that can be used for much more than just string splitting
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-05-14)
1,965 reads
PatExclude8K
Removes characters in the a string (@string) that matches a specific pattern (updated 12-3-14)
2016-06-10 (first published: 2014-10-27)
4,542 reads
Translate function for SQL Server
Relational database management systems such as Oracle, Postgres, DB2 and Teradata, as well as other programming languages such as Python, Hive, XSLT and SAS have a Translate function. Now we have one for SQL Server.
2016-06-01 (first published: 2016-05-12)
1,068 reads
Calculate Age (in years)
An inline table valued function (iTVF) that can be used to calculate age in years.
2016-04-27 (first published: 2016-04-06)
1,073 reads
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