I wish I knew that yesterday!

SQL Server 2012 Awesomeness

and some other stuff

Matt Horn

• Senior Consultant – Aphelion Software• Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist• Co-lead JHB Business Intelligence

Developer Network• Lead - IntelliCape B.I. User Group

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Agenda

Sequences Paging Dates String Functions Conversion Functions Other useful @#$%

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Sequences

Sequences

Used to generate numeric sequences. Set min and max values Caching of future values minimizing disk

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Paging

OFFSET & FETCH

ORDER BY is mandatory OFFSET  and FETCH are a pair. TOP  is a no no.

Dates

New Functions

DATEFROMPARTS DATETIMEFROMPARTS DATETIME2FROMPARTS SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS TIMEFROMPARTS EOMONTH

Strings

String Functions

CONCAT Does what it says on the box

FORMAT Looks simple. MASSIVELY useful

Conversion Functions

PARSE TRY_PARSE TRY_CONVERT

Other useful .. stuff