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Aggregate Count of rows with the SQL Server COUNT Function Tim Wiseman
Aggregate Getting started with SQL MAX Function with Use Cases Manvendra Singh
Aggregate Getting Starting with SQL COUNT() and COUNT_BIG() Functions Manvendra Singh
Aggregate SQL Server T-SQL Aggregate Functions Jeremy Kadlec
Calculations Max, Min, and Avg SQL Server Functions Tim Wiseman
Calculations Using GREATEST and LEAST functions in Azure SQL Database Aaron Bertrand
Comparison Using SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE to Standardize Data in SQL Server Tim Cullen
Concatentation CONCAT and CONCAT_WS function in SQL Server Rajendra Gupta
Concatentation Concatenate SQL Server Columns into a String with CONCAT() Chad Churchwell
Concatentation Using SQL Server Concatenation Efficiently Sherlee Dizon
Conversions Concatenation of Different SQL Server Data Types Chad Churchwell
Conversions Convert Problematic Data in SQL Server Jared Westover
Conversions New Data Type Conversion Functions in SQL Server 2012 Ashish Kumar Mehta
Date Range SQL Servers Lag and Lead Functions to Help Identify Date Differences Thomas LeBlanc
Email Sending mail messages from SQL Server Eric Blinn
Formatting Different Ways to Format Currency Output in SQL Daniel Calbimonte
Formatting FORMAT is a convenient but expensive SQL Server function - Part 1 Aaron Bertrand
Formatting FORMAT is a convenient but expensive SQL Server function – Part 2 Aaron Bertrand
Formatting Format numbers in SQL Server Daniel Calbimonte
JSON Determine if a Specific Path in a JSON Document Exists in SQL Server Daniel Calbimonte
JSON ISJSON enhancements in SQL Server for valid JSON format for a Value, Array or Object Daniel Calbimonte
Logical New Logical Functions in SQL Server 2012 (IIF and CHOOSE) Ashish Kumar Mehta
Meta Data Getting SQL Server Metadata With Python Tim Wiseman
Meta Data Metadata Functions in SQL Server and Their Use Cases Manvendra Singh
Monitoring SQL Server 2008 System Functions to Monitor the Instance, Database, Files, etc. Arshad Ali
Monitoring Understanding and Using SQL Server sys.dm_exec_requests K. Brian Kelley
Network Determine SQL Server Network Protocol Information using T-SQL and DMVs Eduardo Pivaral
Numbers SQL Server Rounding Functions - Round, Ceiling and Floor Jeremy Kadlec
Objects SQL Server Database Object Properties using OBJECTPROPERTY Function Manvendra Singh
Overview Overview of SQL Server Table-Valued Functions sys.dm_exec_cursors and sys.dm_db_log_info Jayendra Viswanathan
Overview Understanding and Using sys.dm_exec_sessions in SQL Server K. Brian Kelley
Performance SQL Server COUNT() Function Performance Comparison Simon Liew
Pivot SQL Server PIVOT and UNPIVOT Examples Daniel Calbimonte
Random Data Different ways to get random data for SQL Server data sampling Derek Colley
Random Data Generate Unique Random Number in SQL Server Rick Dobson
Random Data Randomly Retrieve SQL Server Records Greg Robidoux
Random Data Retrieving random data from SQL Server with TABLESAMPLE Greg Robidoux
Ranking Calculate the Statistical Mode in SQL Server using T-SQL Koen Verbeeck
Ranking Forgotten SQL Server Functions - VARP, SOUNDEX and NTILE Derek Colley
Ranking How to List First or Last n% Records Using NTILE() in SQL Server Harris Amjad
Ranking Percent_Rank and Cume_Dist functions in SQL Server 2012 Rajendra Gupta
Ranking SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Ranking Functions DENSE_RANK and NTILE Arshad Ali
Ranking SQL Server 2012 Analytical Functions - Percentile_Cont and Percentile_Disc Rajendra Gupta
Ranking SQL Server 2012 Functions - First_Value and Last_Value Rajendra Gupta
Ranking SQL Server Lead and Lag Functions Rajendra Gupta
Ranking SQL Server Ranking Functions Row_Number and Rank Arshad Ali
Result Set Dynamically controlling the number of rows affected by a SQL Server query Greg Robidoux
Server Additional SERVERPROPERTY properties in SQL Server Ahmad Yaseen
Server SQL Server SERVERPROPERTY() Use Cases Manvendra Singh
Statistics Data Analysis with SQL Server Logarithmic Functions LOG() and LOG10() Harris Amjad
Statistics T-SQL Starter Statistics Package for SQL Server Rick Dobson
Strings Dealing with the single-character delimiter in SQL Server's STRING_SPLIT function Aaron Bertrand
Strings Deciding between COALESCE and ISNULL in SQL Server Aaron Bertrand
Strings FORMAT and CONCAT Functions in SQL Server Ashish Kumar Mehta
Strings Name Parsing for Result Sets with Different Name Formats Rick Dobson
Strings Name Parsing for up to Two Different Persons from One Name String with SQL Server T-SQL Rick Dobson
Strings Name Parsing with SQL Server Functions and T-SQL Programming Rick Dobson
Strings Parsing string data with the new SQL Server 2016 STRING_SPLIT function John Miner
Strings Performance Comparison of the SQL Server PARSE, CAST, CONVERT and TRY_PARSE, TRY_CAST, TRY_CONVERT Functions Ben Snaidero
Strings Solve old problems with SQL Server’s new STRING_AGG and STRING_SPLIT functions Aaron Bertrand
Strings SQL REPLACE to Replace Text Values in Strings Garry Bargsley
Strings SQL Server 2016 STRING_SPLIT Function Ahmad Yaseen
Strings SQL Server Split String Replacement Code with STRING_SPLIT Aaron Bertrand
Strings SQL Server Text Data Manipulation Greg Robidoux
Strings SQL Substring Function Examples with T-SQL, R and Python Siddharth Mehta
Strings The Many Uses of Coalesce in SQL Server Ken Simmons
Strings Using FOR XML PATH and STRING_AGG() to denormalize SQL Server data Aaron Bertrand
Strings Using the SQL ISNULL() Function Ben Snaidero
System CHECKSUM Functions in SQL Server 2005 Jeremy Kadlec
System SQL Server 2008 Functions for Tables, Views, Indexes, Columns, Stored Procedures Arshad Ali
System Understanding SQL Server T-SQL Configuration Functions Manvendra Singh
System Using the OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME function to return the SQL Server schema name Tim Ford
System Using the SQL Server APP_NAME function to control stored procedure execution Siddharth Mehta
Window Functions Using Window Functions to Create Smart, Quick Queries Eric Blinn
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