youdidwhatwithtsql.com » TweetShrink http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com making DBAs everywhere curse! Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:02:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Shrinking Tweets with Tweet-SQL http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com/shrinking-tweets-with-tweet-sql/105 http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com/shrinking-tweets-with-tweet-sql/105#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 20:24:23 +0000 Rhys http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com/shrinking-tweets-with-tweet-sql/105 Post from: youdidwhatwithtsql.com

Shrinking Tweets with Tweet-SQL

]]> To get your point across on Twitter you sometimes have to try and shorten your tweets. This can be a pain for anyone over 30 who doesn’t know txtspk. Thankfully some clever chap has come to the rescue with TweetShrink and I’ve integrated it into Tweet-SQL. Here’s how you use it;

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DECLARE @shrunk VARCHAR(140),
		@shaved INT;
 
EXEC dbo.tweet_util_tweetShrink 'For some strange reason I have developed a tendency to think every new version of Windows is more of a resource pig.', @shrunk OUTPUT, @shaved OUTPUT;
 
-- The shortened Tweet
SELECT @shrunk AS shrunkTweet;
-- How may characters have been shaved off?
SELECT @shaved AS shaved;

Using TweetShrink in Tweet-SQL

A future version of Tweet-SQL will include this functionality along with a few more cool surprises.

Shrinking Tweets with Tweet SQL

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