Applies to:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012

What?
These were in a solution and I thought I'd note them on my site so I can refer to them more easily.

How?

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What?
So this is an article exploring how to convert UPPERCASE text into mixed case. The feed is originally for a personnel feed so it won't be converting long paragraphs of English text. Instead it will be applied to names and addresses as well as job titles and departments.

Why?
We wanted a T-SQL version despite having successfully built a custom script component for SSIS.

How?
You can search my site for how to do this in VB or C#. This version is entirely using T-SQL and we're going to use a function so no dynamic SQL (execute, evaluate).

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What?
This took me a while to find so I've posted an article below detailing how to parse or extract values from a string containing XML code.

Why?
I'm working with a system which stores XML strings in a database and rather than a separate file, it stores these in a row.

How?

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Applies to:

• MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008
• Two Transact-SQL databases

What?
A quick article on how to compare two Microsoft databases using the tools provided with SQL Server and without having to download any third-party products.

Why?
I googled and binged and all I could find were people selling third party products... they don't get it. If you are reading this, it's likely you've paid for a commercial version of a Microsoft product which cannot possibly be cheap. MS SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) comes included so use it...

How?
Well I started with the method #1 listed here and then just built on this.

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Applies to

• Transact-SQL (T-SQL)

What?
This is a quick article on how to split a single row into multipe rows based on the value of a column in the same table.

Why?
I have a table that has all the days of sickness of employees. This table contains, which employee, on what date, and for how many days they were off sick. When migrating to a new system, the destination wanted 1 row per day. This meant that if in the old system, there was 1 row with an employee who took 2 days off, we would want 2 rows for that date for the same employee in the new system.

What we have:

SELECT
        EmployeeNo
        , DaysOffSick
        , DateOfSickness
FROM    Employees_Attendance_Table


-- yields

        EmployeeNo      DaysOffSick     DateOfSickness
        --------------  --------------  ----------------
        001             1.00            1997-11-17
        002             3.00            2000-02-18
        003             2.00            1999-02-25

What we want:

EmployeeNo      DaysOffSick     DateOfSickness
--------------  --------------  ----------------
001             1.00            1997-11-17
002             1.00            2000-02-18
002             1.00            2000-02-19
002             1.00            2000-02-20
003             1.00            1999-02-25
003             1.00            1999-02-26

-- note the dates increment and do not account for days off (eg. Saturday / Sunday)

How?

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What?
This is a quick article on how to use a counter added to the end of a field column of data.

Eh. What?
Assume the following two tables exist:

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