Have you ever gone through the process of checking your SQL code for errors and typos? The painstaking process can be a drag, but it’s…
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How to Use TSQL to Group Dates by Range
In this article, you’ll learn how to use TSQL to group dates by range. This is a fairly common task that involves checking if a…
How to Generate Freeform RDLC Reports
In a business intelligence solution, we often need to generate reports that showcase data in different ways. In most cases, it is not possible to…
5 Tips for Writing a Defensive T-SQL Script
When you’re writing defensive T-SQL, you have to write a lot of code. Or, rather, you have to write a lot of code to write…
SQL Query to Find Records for Specific Date, Ignoring Time
T-SQL queries can be written to retrieve records for specific dates, times, or dates and times. If a record was created between these two dates,…
Using COALESCE to avoid using sp_executeSql
Creating stored procedures for table searches is simple with where clause. The difficulty arises when we have to include null or optional parameters for the…
Format datetime & date in SQL Server 2005
Often we end up on older versions of SQL Server and we have to recall the old ways for doing things. Here is a handy…