I get really good feedback all the time from users of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, but none more than when we have more and more date and time functions. One pair of functions that we added in v19 that was recently shipped was StartOfWeek and EndOfWeek.
These are simple scalar functions that take a single date parameter, and return the date for the start and end of the week that contains the date provided.
2020-04-15
I like to have my databases at the same database compatibility level as the server, whenever possible. But how do you know the maximum value that’s allowed? We recently added a tool to our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs to solve this. It’s called ServerMaximumDBCompatibilityLevel.
It’s a simple scalar function that returns the maximum DB compatibility level that’s supported by the server. It takes no parameters.
If you want to know which server version (like 2017 or 2019) that the DB compatibility level represents, you can also combine it with our SQLServerVersionForCompatibilityLevel function.
2020-04-01
I recently posted about how we added Countries and Currencies to our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs. I use those all the time in drop-down lists. But the other one that’s super-helpful, is to know which are the official currencies for each country. So we’ve added another view called CurrenciesByCountry.
It’s a simple view that returns details of the current list of official currencies for each country. You can see it here:
2020-03-25
I regularly need a list of currencies in drop-down lists, and when performing calculations, etc. To make that easy, in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we added a tool to do just that. It’s a view called Currencies.
It’s a simple view that returns details of the current official list of common currencies.
For each currency, it returns the 3 character currency code, the name of the currency, the most common symbol that’s used for it, the name of its minor unit (like cents for dollars) if there is one, and if so, the number of minor units to every major unit (100 for cents in a dollar).
2020-03-18
I regularly need a list of countries in drop-down lists, etc. To make that easy, in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we added a tool to do just that. It’s a view called Countries.
It’s a simple view that returns details of the current official list of countries.
For each country, it returns the 3 character country code, the country number, the name of the country and which continent it’s part of.
2020-03-11
I often need to calculate a day number in a month. For example, I need to work out the 3rd Tuesday of a month, or the 4th Friday, and so on. To make that easy, in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we added a tool to do just that. It’s a function called DayNumberOfMonth.
It’s a function that takes four parameters:
@Year is the year (of the month in question) @Month is month in question (as a number within a calendar year i.e. March = 3) @DayOfWeek is an integer with Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, etc. @DayNumber is also an integer for the day number (i.e. 3 for 3rd Monday)
2020-03-04
The DateDiffNoWeekends tool in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, has been really popular. Another request that we received though, was how to calculate which date a particular numbers week day is. For example, we might want to know which is the 12th week day of the month. So we’ve added a tool to do that. It’s called WeekDayOfMonth.
It’s a function that takes three parameters:
@Year is the year (of the month in question) @Month is month in question (as a number within a calendar year i.e. March = 3) @WeekdayNumber is an integer that gives you the position in the month that you are trying to calculate.
2020-02-26
While it’s not 100% required, your life is generally better if your databases are set to the maximum database compatibility level that your server supports. But it’s a bit of a pain to actually make that change. So in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have a procedure that does just that. It’s called SetDatabaseCompabilityForAllDatabasesToMaximum.
It’s a stored procedure and takes no parameters at all.
It checks all the user databases and sets them to the maximum level allowed by the server that they are attached to. It is applicable to SQL Server only. (This procedure doesn’t exist in the Azure SQL Database version of the tools).
2020-02-19
It’s common to need to get a table of all dates between two dates, and in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have a function DatesBetween that I’ve previously talked about. But sometimes it’s not a start and end date that you have, it’s a start date and a number of intervals. For example, I might want all the dates for the next three months, or three weeks, or two years. To make that easy, we’ve added a function called DatesInPeriod.
2020-02-12
I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that we recently shipped version 18 of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs.
We’ve had so many requests for a version of SDU Tools that will work with Azure SQL Database. So, in version 18.0, we added that support.
We’ve added two new scripts included in the download: one for adding the tools to Azure SQL DB and one for removing them.
2020-02-05
