Oct 17, 2014

How to implment CRON job in windows service using C#

In this post we will go throught the steps involved in creating a windows service which will repeat according to specified CRON EXPRESSION


1. Create a windows Service named "CronService"



2. Right click on the project in solution explorer, click on "Manage NuGet Packages"

How to find common words between two SQL variables

MSSQL How to find common words between two sentences:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[EscapeXml](@data NVARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS NVARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
 DECLARE @t NVARCHAR(MAX)
 --< (<), & (&), > (>), " ("), and ' (')
 SELECT @t = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@data,'<','<'),'&','&'),'"','"'),'''',''')
 
 RETURN @t
END
GO
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fnSplit](@data NVARCHAR(MAX), @delimiter NVARCHAR(5))
RETURNS @t TABLE (rowNum int IDENTITY(1,1), data NVARCHAR(max), descriptor varchar(255) NULL)
AS
BEGIN
    SELECT @data = [dbo].[EscapeXml](@data)
    DECLARE @textXML XML;
    SELECT    @textXML = CAST('' + REPLACE(@data, @delimiter, '') + '' AS XML);

    INSERT INTO @t(data)
    SELECT  RTRIM(LTRIM(T.split.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)'))) AS data
    FROM    @textXML.nodes('/d') T(split)

    RETURN
END
Usage:
SELECT sentence1.data as common
FROM dbo.fnSplit('This is sentence1 test',' ') sentence1 
INNER JOIN dbo.fnSplit('This is sentence2 test',' ') sentence2 ON sentence1.data = sentence2.data
Output:

common
--------
This
is
test