String Functions

Exact Numerics

Date Functions

Create a Stored Procedure

DATEADD (datepart, number, date)

CREATE PROCEDURE name

bit

decimal

DATEDIFF (datepart, start, end)

tinyint

money

DATENAME (datepart, date)

smallint

numeric

DATEPART (datepart, date)

bigint

@variable AS datatype = value

AS
-- Comments
SELECT * FROM table

DAY (date)

Approximate Numerics
real
float

GETDATE()

Date and Time

MONTH (date)

smalldatetime

timestamp

GO

GETUTCDATE()
Create a Trigger

YEAR (date)

datetime

CREATE TRIGGER name

Strings

ON

Dateparts
text

char
varchar
Unicode Strings

ntext

nchar
nvarchar
Binary Strings

image

binary
varbinary
Miscellaneous

table
Year

yy, yyyy

Quarter

qq, q

Month

mm, m

Day of Year

dy, y

Day

dd, d

Week

wk, ww

Hour

hh

Minute

mi, n

cursor

table

Second

ss, s

sql_variant

xml

Millisecond

ms

FOR
DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE
AS
-- Comments
SELECT * FROM table
GO
Create a View
CREATE VIEW name
AS

Type Conversion
CAST (expression AS datatype)

ABS

LOG10

CONVERT (datatype, expression)

ACOS

PI

ASIN

POWER

ATAN

RADIANS

ATN2

RAND

CEILING

ROUND

COS

SIGN

COT

SIN

DEGREES

SQUARE

Ranking Functions
RANK

NTILE

DENSE_RANK

ROW_NUMBER

Grouping (Aggregate) Functions

MAX

AVG

-- Comments

Mathematical Functions

BINARY_CHECKSUM MIN
SUM
CHECKSUM

EXP

SQRT

FLOOR

TAN

LOG

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name

ON
table (columns)
Create a Function
CREATE FUNCTION name
(@variable datatype(length))
datatype(length)

STDEV

COUNT

STDEVP

COUNT_BIG

VAR

ASCII

REPLICATE

GROUPING

VARP

CHAR

REVERSE

CHARINDEX

RIGHT

DIFFERENCE

RTRIM

LEFT

SOUNDEX

String Functions

AS

ALTER

DROP

LEN

SPACE

CREATE

TRUNCATE

LOWER

STR

LTRIM

STUFF

NCHAR

SUBSTRING

Available free from

PATINDEX

UNICODE

AddedBytes.com

REPLACE

UPPER

QUOTENAME

Create an Index

RETURNS

CHECKSUM_AVG

Table Functions

SELECT * FROM table

GO

BEGIN
DECLARE @return datatype(length)
SELECT @return = CASE @variable
WHEN 'a' THEN 'return a'
WHEN 'b' THEN 'return b'
ELSE 'return c'
RETURN @return
END