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Find Missing Constraints

Procedure to help find missing constraints when comparing two databases that are supposed to be the same.  SP has ability to show all constraints per database, and the ability to generate create scripts to make adding the missing constraints easier.

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2006-12-26 (first published: )

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(Dutch) Elfproef in T-SQL UDF

In The Netherlands we use bankaccountnumbers that need to comply to a test call 'elfproef'. This test evaluates the sum of each number multiplied by the position the number appears in the accountnumber. If the modulos of the sum divided by 11 is zero then the accountnumber is valid. The length of a bankaccountnumber in […]

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2006-11-20 (first published: )

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Merge Wizard

In our environment, we needed to create and drop replication over and over in our test environment and I got realy tired of having to manualy go to each table with an identity column to set its ranges. This sproc will create or drop the publications and/or subscriptions for all or some of the objects […]

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2006-11-15 (first published: )

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Rename DTS Tasks for Clear Log Text

This Script will create a copy of your DTS Package; append "_Renamed" to the end of the package name; and rename every task and step in the copied package to Task/Step_TaskType_DescriptionText_Sequence. The resulting package will lose all of it's text annotations, the layout will be the designer default rather than the original latout. It can […]

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2006-10-12 (first published: )

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UDF to return Years, Months & Days between 2 dates

There are two UDF's included here.The first one will return the number of Years, Months and Days between a Start and End date.The second one will return either Years, Months or Days which makes it much easier to include in a select.If you know of or find a better/faster way to do this, then please […]

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2006-08-01 (first published: )

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SP_WHO_3 - A Very Powerful Utility for All DBAs

SP_WHO_3 is a very powerful utility for all DBAs. It displays processes connected to the system and what they are doing. It can find blocking processes, can return the Input Buffer for everything in the recordset returned, and provides immense filtering and sorting capabilities. It's designed to be extremely efficient, yet it provides many more […]

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2006-01-17 (first published: )

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RegEx Functions IV

I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:

EmailAddressID EmailAddress
7              dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
8              Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
If I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10
 *
 FROM person.EmailAddress
 WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i')
 AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)

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