Code samples in the forums

  • C'mon Tony, get it right! Here is the code pasted in as a 'snippet' and using & e n s p ;

    [font="Courier New"]USE [master]

    GO

    CREATE DATABASE [Test_DB] ON PRIMARY

       (

                NAME = N'Test_DB',

                FILENAME = N'D:\MSSQL\Data\Test_DB.mdf' ,

                SIZE = 102400KB ,

                MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED,

                FILEGROWTH = 102400KB

       )

             LOG ON

       (

                NAME = N'Test_DB_log',

                FILENAME = N'E:\MSSQL\Logs\Test_DB_log.ldf' ,

                SIZE = 51200KB ,

                MAXSIZE = 2048GB ,

                FILEGROWTH = 51200KB

       )

             COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

    GO[/font]

    and here is is using nbsp; in a code block. The first time I pasted it in, it lost its indentation (if you paste it in, then preview it... is my best guess)

    [font="Courier New"]USE [master]

    GO

    CREATE DATABASE [Test_DB] ON PRIMARY

    (

    NAME = N'Test_DB',

    FILENAME = N'D:\MSSQL\Data\Test_DB.mdf' ,

    SIZE = 102400KB ,

    MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED,

    FILEGROWTH = 102400KB

    )

    LOG ON

    (

    NAME = N'Test_DB_log',

    FILENAME = N'E:\MSSQL\Logs\Test_DB_log.ldf' ,

    SIZE = 51200KB ,

    MAXSIZE = 2048GB ,

    FILEGROWTH = 51200KB

    )

    COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

    GO[/font]

    and here is the ensp version which never seems to lose its indentation. It will be all right in IE6 once you lose the ghastly grey background

    [font="Courier New"]USE [master]

    GO

    CREATE DATABASE [Test_DB] ON PRIMARY

       (

                NAME = N'Test_DB',

                FILENAME = N'D:\MSSQL\Data\Test_DB.mdf' ,

                SIZE = 102400KB ,

                MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED,

                FILEGROWTH = 102400KB

       )

             LOG ON

       (

                NAME = N'Test_DB_log',

                FILENAME = N'E:\MSSQL\Logs\Test_DB_log.ldf' ,

                SIZE = 51200KB ,

                MAXSIZE = 2048GB ,

                FILEGROWTH = 51200KB

       )

             COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

    GO[/font]

    Best wishes,
    Phil Factor

  • OK except for a daft problem, which is that the B***ding forum software sees the & # 1 6 0 ; & # 1 6 0 ; ) (without the spaces of course) and interprets the last two characters as a smiley (begorrah!)

    [font="Courier New"]CREATE FUNCTION center

      (

        @String VARCHAR(8000),

        @width INT,

        @fillchar VARCHAR(10) = ' '

      )

    /*Returns a copy of @String centered in a string of length width, surrounded

    by the appropriate number of fillChar characters

    e.g.

    select dbo.center('Help me please',100,'*')

    select dbo.center('error',100,'*!=')

    select dbo.center('error',null,null)

    select dbo.center(null,null,null)

    */

    RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)

    AS BEGIN

        IF @string IS NULL

          RETURN NULL

        DECLARE @LenString INT

        DECLARE @LenResult INT

    -- Declare the return variable here

        SELECT  @lenString = LEN(@String), @Fillchar = COALESCE(@Fillchar, ' '),

                @width = COALESCE(@Width, LEN(@String) * 2)

        SELECT  @lenResult = CASE WHEN @LenString > @Width THEN @LenString

                                  ELSE @width

                             END

        RETURN STUFF(REPLICATE(@fillchar,

                               @lenResult / LEN(REPLACE(@FillChar, ' ', '|'))),

                     ( @LenResult - LEN(@String) + 2 ) / 2, @lenString, @String)

       END

    GO[/font]

    [font="Courier New"]ALTER FUNCTION dbo.[count]

      (

        @string VARCHAR(8000),

        @Sub VARCHAR(8000),

        @start INT = NULL,

        @end INT = NULL

      )

    /* Returns the number of occurrences of substring sub in string s.

    Select dbo.count('This is a nice string','[^a-z][a-z]',null,null)--wordcount (not include first word)

    Select dbo.count('I''m henery the eighth I am I am','I am',null,null)

    select dbo.count('45667892398','8',null,null)

    */

    RETURNS INT

    AS BEGIN

        DECLARE @more INT

        DECLARE @count INT

        IF @string = NULL

          RETURN NULL

        SELECT  @count = 0, @more = 1, @Start = COALESCE(@Start, 1),

                @end = COALESCE(@end, LEN(@string))

        SELECT  @end = CASE WHEN @end > LEN(@string) THEN LEN(@string)

                            ELSE @end

                       END

        WHILE @more <> 0

          BEGIN

            SELECT  @more = PATINDEX('%' + @sub + '%',

                                     SUBSTRING(@string, @Start, @End - @start + 1))

            IF @more > 0

              SELECT  @Start = @Start + @more, @count = @count + 1

            IF @start >= @End

              SELECT  @more = 0

          END

        RETURN @count

       END

    GO[/font]

    Best wishes,
    Phil Factor

  • hi All,

    Can any one tell me how to paste the code in box rather than plain text.

    i mean i would like to paste the code in table format in the forums.

  • click on the shortcut in the box on the left of the message pane

    paste code between the two code blocks

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  • as an additional hint for pasting code between the tags, add a couple of carriage returns between the opening and closing tags. Doing that will usually keep the code from changing the comparison operators (e.g. > and <).

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