Creating a SQL Server Database Project in Visual Studio 2012

I used to create my application database by managing a series of install scripts with one table or stored procedure per file.  In those files I had to manage potential changes to those schema items and also handle conditional creation of those entities if they

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SQL Server Parsing a string into a table

Recently someone asked how to break apart multiple values stored together in a single field.  I’ve written a number of variations of functions that perform this task in SQL Server. Purpose Some of you may ask why would you ever do such a thing.  You

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