http://audaxx.net Notes on database design, business intelligence, ETL, and enterprise reporting using Microsoft SQL Server Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://audaxx.net/2011/10/21/pivot-word-to-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-50 John Huang Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:15:49 +0000 http://audaxx.net/?p=379#comment-50 Hi Martina, what's the business case of it? Would you think doing substring only would be faster since you are copying the string in each iteration although the @substring gets one char less than last iteration. Hi Martina, what’s the business case of it? Would you think doing substring only would be faster since you are copying the string in each iteration although the @substring gets one char less than last iteration.

]]> http://audaxx.net/2010/01/09/handling-invalid-illegal-or-special-characters-in-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-40 John Huang Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:01:51 +0000 http://www.ilovedata.ca/?p=219#comment-40 Martina, I usualy convert the string that might contain the invalid chars into 64 based binary strings...like select cast(col as vaarbinary(64)) from ... for xml...,binary base64 Continue your good work, Martina Martina, I usualy convert the string that might contain the invalid chars into 64 based binary strings…like
select cast(col as vaarbinary(64)) from … for xml…,binary base64
Continue your good work, Martina

]]> http://audaxx.net/2010/06/30/pivot-columns-to-rows-using-xml/comment-page-1/#comment-39 John Huang Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:03:03 +0000 http://www.ilovedata.ca/?p=289#comment-39 That's a good idea. Did not thought about using xquery "row/@". Thanks for sharing. That’s a good idea. Did not thought about using xquery “row/@”. Thanks for sharing.

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