Passing parameters to query without TVFs
This article looks at an interesting way to help your users get filtered data from a TVF instead of using a stored procedure or specialized view.
2023-03-27
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Table Valued Function (TVF)
Creating and Using Inline Table-Valued Functions
Inline Table Valued Functions (iTVFs) are one type of user defined function that is available to implement in SQL Server since SQL Server 2000.
iTVFs remain a very useful tool in our SQL armoury, so let's quickly revisit them and the different ways we can use them in our code.
2020-10-07 (first published: 2020-09-08)
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Get Modified Objects As on Date
This table Valued Function return the Modified Objects (SP /Views) For the Date specified.
2011-10-07 (first published: 2007-11-23)
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Table-valued function FTParsedINT
This tabled valued function can be used to parse a comma seperated list of IDs so you can pass a parameter to use in a in clause without having to use dynamic SQL.
2007-11-22 (first published: 2007-10-04)
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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] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers
