SDU Tools for March 2018 – going out tonight

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I'm really happy with the additions we made to our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs that are going out tonight:

DatesBetween – table-valued function to return dates between two dates
DateDimensionColumns – table-valued function to return typical date dimension columns for a date (useful for data warehouses)

JulianDayNumberToDate – converts a Julian day number to a date
DateToJulianDayNumber – converts a date to a Julian day number

SystemConfigurationOptionDefaults – view that shows system configuration options and their default values (and many other values)
NonDefaultSystemConfigurationOptions – view that shows system configuration options that are not at their default values

SQLServerVersionForCompatibilityLevel – function that converts a database (or server) compatibility level to a SQL Server version

SystemWords – view that shows reserved words, future reserved words, ODBC reserved words, and system data type names and their display color in SSMS
ReservedWords – view that shows SQL Server reserved words (and their display color in SSMS)
FutureReservedWords – view that shows SQL Server future reserved words (and their display color in SSMS)
ODBCReservedWords – view that shows ODBC reserved words (and their display color in SSMS)
SystemDataTypeNames – view that shows all system data type names (and their display color in SSMS)

CreateLinkedServerToAzureSQLDatabase – as the name says – makes it easy to create a linked server to an Azure SQL DB

ListPrimaryKeyColumns – comma-delimited list of primary key columns for all primary keys

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