Have you ever needed to generate a list of dates for the last 30 days. There are lots of different ways to do this with TSQL, but one way is with a recursive CTE. You can then left join against it with another query to generate a list of all dates in a result set, along with the dates for …
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I came across this example when preparing my CTE presentation a while back. Which produces the following output. Download my book for FREE when you sign up for my mailing list. Receive your free copy today!
The question came up as to how do I parse a query string using TSQL. So here you go, using a common table expression, and basing this on a similar function to what I put together yesterday for split. which produces this output. A quick and easy way to parse a query string in TSQL using a CTE. Receive a …
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One of the common problems with when diagnosing what appears to be a slow scenario where there may be blocking involved is determining what is blocking on SQL Server. Here is a query that I like to use. If there is no blocking occurring then this query will return nothing. This script works on SQL Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, …
Back in 2012 when I was writing my Common Table Expressions book, I came up with the following CTE in a function to split a string into rows. Original Post: http://stevestedman.com/2012/04/using-a-cte-to-split-a-string-into-rows/ At the time, I thought it was pretty handy function, I ended up including it as an example in my CTE book, and I have used it dozens of …
Day 8 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today I will be building on the intro to recursive CTEs from yesterday and showing how a recursive CTE can be used to calculate information about dates of the year. This would be useful if you were trying to build a calendar. These queries will be using that database that …
Last month I posted another CTE blog entry Using a CTE to Split a String Into Rows with Line Numbers. Since then I have used it but, but realized that what I really needed was a diff tool to compare two strings similar to the command line diff tool. First we take a look the SplitWithLineNumber from the previous article. This …
Last year while working on my CTE presentation for a SQL Saturday I added a blog post called “Using a CTE to Split a String Into Rows“, and since that posting I have used it many times. But as things go in development, eventually there is a need to do something more. Doing some complex string building to create files …
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I came across this example when preparing my CTE presentation for SQL Saturday in Portland OR in 2 weeks. Which produces the following output.
Have you ever needed to generate a list of dates for the last 30 days. There are lots of different ways to do this with TSQL, but one way is with a CTE, where you can then left join against it with another query to generate a list of all dates in a result set, along with the dates for …
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