Here’s a quick wrap up of the articles published on SQLServerCurry.com in the month of June 2011
T-SQL Articles
FLOOR a DateTime in SQL Server - Suppose you are given a datetime and want to emulate the FLOOR function on it eg: find first day of year, first day of month etc, you can use the code shown in this post.
Concatenate Strings in SQL Server - Different ways - There are many ways to concatenate data in a single column. This post shows some of these ways.
SQL Server NTILE Function - The SQL Server NTILE() function divides the result set into a specified number of even sized group (approximate division) and assigns a ranking value to these groups.
SQL Server: Different Ways to find SPID - There are many ways to know the Server Process id or now also known as Session ID (SPID).
Standard Deviation in SQL Server and Aggregation on Aggregates - SQL Server makes calculation of Standard Deviation relatively easy with the STDEV statistical aggregate function. What I learnt recently was that you can either apply this function to all values or can even select distinct values. You can also perform an aggregation on aggregates that can be used in reports
SQL Server: Calculate Summary and Column Summary - This post shows how to show a summary of similar rows as well as column summary for SQL Server table data. Suppose you want to generate the total of a column and display it at the end of the result set.
SQL Server Tutorials on Date Time - One of the most frequently asked question by SQL developers, is on handing Date, Time and other related datetime values in SQL Server. Developers are always looking out for solutions which demand either converting Date Time Values or finding date time ranges and so on. Madhivanan and I have already written a couple of articles on handling DateTime in SQL Server. In this post I will share some of the links with you.
SQL Server: Check if Date is End of Month - Here’s a very simple query that checks if the date is End of the Month.
SQL Server: Grouping ID Example - Let us suppose you have used the rollup operator to generate summary information along with the Details information and you now want to differentiate between summary and detail. You can make use of the SQL Server grouping_id function. Let us understand the GROUPING_ID function using some code.
SQL Server BI
SSIS Balanced Data Distributor Transform - The Balanced Data Distributor (BDD) is a new SSIS transform which takes a single input and distributes the rows to one or more outputs uniformly via multithreading. The transform takes one pipeline buffer worth of rows at a time and moves it to the next output in a round robin fashion.
Dynamic Connection String in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/2008 - In this post we will see how to generate a report using dynamic connection string in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/2008. The scenario is if we have different data with the same schemas, spread across different database and different SQL servers and people would like to see the data as per their preferences (like area wise), we can use a Dynamic Connection string.
SQL Server General
SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit (May 2011 Update) - Microsoft updated it’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Training Kit to support for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
SQL Azure Migration Wizard - For those who do not know about this tool, the SQL Azure Migration Wizard is an open source tool that helps you migrate your SQL Server 2005/2008 databases to and from SQL Azure. The tools analyzes your database for any compatibility issues and allows you to either fully or partially migrate your database schema and data to SQL Azure.
SQL Server Driver 2.0 for PHP 5 - Microsoft recently released SQL Server Drivers for PHP 2.0 which adds support for PDO with a new PDO_SQLSRV and contains bug fixes for the existing SQLSRV driver. The native APIs present in the PHP Driver for SQL Server 1.1 are still present, there is additional support for the PDO API.
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