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Count of rows with the SQL Server COUNT Function
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Max, Min, and Avg SQL Server Functions
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Using SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE to Standardize Data in SQL Server
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Concatenate SQL Server Columns into a String with CONCAT()
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Concatenation of Different SQL Server Data Types
New Data Type Conversion Functions in SQL Server 2012
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SQL Servers Lag and Lead Functions to Help Identify Date Differences
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New Logical Functions in SQL Server 2012 (IIF and CHOOSE)
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Getting SQL Server Metadata With Python
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SQL Server 2008 System Functions to Monitor the Instance, Database, Files, etc.
Understanding and Using SQL Server sys.dm_exec_requests
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Determine SQL Server Network Protocol Information using T-SQL and DMVs
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SQL Server Rounding Functions - Round, Ceiling and Floor
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Overview of SQL Server Table-Valued Functions sys.dm_exec_cursors and sys.dm_db_log_info
Understanding and Using sys.dm_exec_sessions in SQL Server
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SQL Server COUNT() Function Performance Comparison
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Different ways to get random data for SQL Server data sampling
Randomly Retrieve SQL Server Records
Retrieving random data from SQL Server with TABLESAMPLE
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Calculate the Statistical Mode in SQL Server using T-SQL
Forgotten SQL Server Functions - VARP, SOUNDEX and NTILE
Percent_Rank and Cume_Dist functions in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Ranking Functions DENSE_RANK and NTILE
SQL Server 2012 Analytical Functions - Percentile_Cont and Percentile_Disc
SQL Server 2012 Functions - First_Value and Last_Value
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Dynamically controlling the number of rows affected by a SQL Server query
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Additional SERVERPROPERTY properties in SQL Server
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T-SQL Starter Statistics Package for SQL Server
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Dealing with the single-character delimiter in SQL Server's STRING_SPLIT function
Deciding between COALESCE and ISNULL in SQL Server
Name Parsing for Result Sets with Different Name Formats
Name Parsing for up to Two Different Persons from One Name String with SQL Server T-SQL
Name Parsing with SQL Server Functions and T-SQL Programming
New FORMAT and CONCAT Functions in SQL Server 2012
Parsing string data with the new SQL Server 2016 STRING_SPLIT function
Performance Comparison of the SQL Server PARSE, CAST, CONVERT and TRY_PARSE, TRY_CAST, TRY_CONVERT Functions
Solve old problems with SQL Server’s new STRING_AGG and STRING_SPLIT functions
SQL Server 2016 STRING_SPLIT Function
SQL Server Substring Function Example with T-SQL, R and Python
SQL Server Text Data Manipulation
The Many Uses of Coalesce in SQL Server
Using FOR XML PATH and STRING_AGG() to denormalize SQL Server data
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CHECKSUM Functions in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2008 Functions for Tables, Views, Indexes, Columns, Stored Procedures
Using the OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME function to return the SQL Server schema name
Using the SQL Server APP_NAME function to control stored procedure execution
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