Redistributing DTS with your program
Have you ever wanted to run DTS on a workstation or server that doesn't have SQL installed? Here's the items you need to move to make it happen.
2004-09-15
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How to obtain today's date within a UDF
As you know, if you've written even a modested amount of UDFs, they like to be deterministic in fact they insist on it, and the most undeterministic value you are likely to want is today's date. Yes, you can use calls to extended stored procedures but I like the simplicity and versatility of this solution.The […]
2004-09-14 (first published: 2004-06-17)
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To compare object permissions with 2 databases
Project are first developed on Development box then moved to Test and then to Prod. It may so happen that you find that things are working just fine on Test boxBut in production an exception is being thrown. Some times this come from the fact that the permission is not set on the object correctly.Or […]
2004-09-14
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Radio Buttons for Reporting Services Reports
This article will detail a way to display radio buttons in your reports. Radio buttons are commonly used in surveys for things such as displaying a selected ranking from 1 to 10 or from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree.
2004-09-14
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Extract data from sp_who for specific database
sp_who (and sp_who2) work great for a quick view of what's going on in the system, and can be filtered by user, but there's no way to filter by database. This quick stored procedure provides data on which users are accessing a specific database.
2004-09-13
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Get back list of failed dts packages
This is a fairly basic script that gets back a list of steps within dts packages that failed within the last 24 hours. The reason I wrote this script, is that if you call a dts package from a dts package on another server via a scheduled job on that same server, both the package […]
2004-09-13 (first published: 2004-06-16)
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SQL Server 2000 Security - Part 10 - Auditing
A basic look at various ways in which you can perform some server auditing with SQL Server 2000.
2004-09-13
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Script to show user indexes tables(Sql 2000)
This script is supported only in SQL SERVER 2000, This shows only indexes created by users in tables.Parameter @tabela--> You can put the table name and get the information about users indexes in this table.OrYou can put nothing (NULL) and see all tables on the schema and how many indexes each table have.
2004-09-10 (first published: 2004-06-08)
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Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer V1.2.1
The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer has been updated to work with Windows XP SP2. If you use this tool be sure that you get the update to work with new patches and vulnerabilities.
2004-09-10
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which scheduled jobs failed on their last run?
Uses the sysjobs and the sysjobhistory tables in the msdb database to determine if ONLY THE MOST RECENT RUN of any job on the server failed.
2004-09-09 (first published: 2004-06-02)
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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