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- beauchamp.me -I am working on a database containing city names in French, and I needed to use these names to create URLs. However, the city names contain accents and special characters like apostrophe that I did not want in my URLs. So I had to write a User Defined Function to make the city names Unix […]
Once, I was in a situation where I had to change the collation of a database. This is not an easy task, since collations are defined at three levels: Database, Table and Columns. So even, if you change the database collation, all the table and fields will still retain the original collation. Changing collation in […]
Recently, I was in a situation where I had to move data from an old version of a database to a newer version of the same database. The structure of the database had changed slightly. I was trying to figure out what data to move first. I wanted to move data that was referenced before […]
Sometimes you want to find out where a table or a column is referenced in a database. I found this script that does just that.
I came accross a situation where I needed to temporarily insert multiple rows in a table with a Null value in a column with a UNIQUE constraint on it. In other words, I wanted the values in that column to be unique, except when they are Null. According to ANSI SQL specifications, this should be […]