Talk to SQL Server developers or DBAs about histograms, and they’ll inevitably think of index statistics. However, a task you may encounter some day is to calculate the distribution of numbers in a table. And although there’s no quick built-in function to do this, it’s not as difficult as you may think.
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A function to calculate recurring dates
When you’re using Microsoft Outlook, or pretty much any other personal information manager, you can create calendar appointments that are “recurring”, i.e. you can have them repeat at a defined frequency. This, however may not only apply to your project meeting appointments, but also to some database solution. I decided to give it a go at building a table value function that returns a list of dates, based on a given set of parameters.
A prime number challenge.
I stumbled upon a challenge on a blog i follow, to find prime numbers using T-SQL. With a little bit of Wikipedia research, I’ve built a T-SQL version of the “sieve of Eratosthenes“.
