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SQL Server 2016 adds new support for the JSON format when retrieving rows from a database table. Because most Web Services now return data in the JSON format, this support can simplify those Action ...

SQL Server has the STR function, which returns character data converted from numeric data. Unfortunately, it has no convenient Format argument. The Oracle query is as follows: ...

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Everything else with SQL and DateTime seems to work so well. i.e. it just works I can declare a DateTime in C# and it will drop straight into SQL with no problems or anything.However, getting the ...

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Of course, most of our flat files on the Microsoft platform are ASCII format, but there needs to be a way of translating the Mainframe data in IBM’s EBCDIC format to the ASCII format. SQL Server ...