To convert binary value to bit wise and vice versa
A procedure and a function doing the same thing are posted.
2004-09-16
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To estimate the size or the future size of a DB
The level of index fragmentation is not taken into consideration. Actual level of fragmentation is assume to be proportionnal over time.Only one object can be used as the witness to drive the database size.A normally distributed database is needed for this tool to report accurate estimates. ** Example : dbo.sp__EstimateSize @UpdateUsage = true ,@ObjGuidance = […]
2004-09-16
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Microsoft, SQL Server and Performance Management: The Business Scoreca
The first article looking at the new BI scorecard technology from Microsoft. This allows you to quickly deploy some easy reports on your OLAP system. From datawarehouse.com.
2004-09-16
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Database Data Dictionary Utilities
This is a modification of Database Data Dictionary by rsellers at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/895.asp.Two procedures to help maintain field definitionsvp_DatabaseDictionary lists the columns grouped by ColumnName, Type, and Length.DatabaseSchemaByColumn is a variation of rsellers procedure in that it takes a column name as an input.Usage: execute vp_DatabaseDictionary you may find that you have several fields of the […]
2004-09-15 (first published: 2004-06-20)
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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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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers