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Function Used to Reformat Phone Numbers

Can use this to select , insert and update phone fields into a standard format. Select FormatPhone(phone_column) from table Update Table set phone_column=FormatPhone(phone_column)Where ...Insert Into Table ( column1, phone_primary ...) Values ( 'qwerty', FormatPhone(1455846677)And the like --

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2007-01-25 (first published: )

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Query MSDB for Search String

TSQL:Procedure to Lookup JobsJack Donnell,[email protected] Have you ever kept altering the same query to look for different items in you database?I took a hint from MS with all the sp_help and other system stored procedures and made a two scripts this one to query for databases scheduled tasks or jobs as they are now called.Here […]

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2002-06-16

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Proc to Query MSDB..SYSJOBS and SYSJOBSTEPS

TSQL:Procedure to Lookup JobsJack Donnell,[email protected] Have you ever kept altering the same query to look for different items in you database?I took a hint from MS with all the sp_help and other system stored procedures and made a two scripts this one to query for databases scheduled tasks or jobs as they are now called.The […]

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2002-06-07

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Proc to Query Syscomments and Sysobjects

TSQL:Procedure to Query for Dependent ObjectsJack Donnell,[email protected] Have you ever kept altering the same query to look for different items in you database?I took a hint from MS with all the sp_help and other system stored procedures and made a two scripts this one to query for databases dependednt objects or references.I also created another […]

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2002-06-07

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Adding and Dropping Columns II

I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList]
(
[CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1),
[CityName] [varchar] (30) ,
[Country2] [char] (3),
[stateprovince2] [char] (2),
[Country] [char] (3),
[stateprovince] [char]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use?

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