There are several ways to get the language currently being used in SQL Server.
The language of the current session will often be the default language for the login, but this is not necessarily always the case. A user can change the current language during the session.
Also, some of SQL Server’s built-in functions accept an argument that allows you to specify a language for that specific query.
This article shows you how to return the language currently being used.
TSQL provides the DATEPART() function, which enables us to return the day of the year for a given date in SQL Server.
By “day of the year”, I mean the day number of the given year.
In SQL Server, you can use OPENQUERY to execute a pass-through query on a linked server.
OPENQUERY is commonly referenced in the FROM clause of a query as if it were a table, but it can also be referenced as the target table of an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.
This article presents an example of using OPENQUERY to do an INSERT pass-through query.
In SQL Server you can use the REPLACE() function to replace all occurrences of a string with another string.
The function accepts three arguments; the string that contains the string to be replaced, the string to be replaced, and the string to replace it.
In SQL Server, you can use the MONTH() function to convert a month name to its corresponding number.
SQL Server provides the STUFF() function that enables you to insert a string inside another string.
The function also allows you to specify the number of characters (if any) to delete from the original string in order to fit the new string.
There are several ways to return the year from a date in SQL Server. Here are three (or is it four?).
There are (at least) a couple of ways you can use T-SQL to return the default language of a specified login in SQL Server.
In particular, you can use the following methods:
LOGINPROPERTY() function. sys.server_principals system catalog view in the master database.Examples of these are below.
In SQL Server, the OPENQUERY rowset function enables you to execute a pass-through query on a linked server.
OPENQUERY is commonly referenced in the FROM clause of a query as if it were a table, but it can also be referenced as the target table of an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.
This article presents an example of using OPENQUERY to do an UPDATE pass-through query.
If you’re using a T-SQL function such as OPENJSON(), JSON_QUERY(), or JSON_VALUE(), you might be wary of any non-alphanumeric characters that might be in the JSON document that you’re working with. Especially if those special characters are in the key names, and you need to reference those key names.