How to Encrypt a password in T-SQL
A function to enctypt a string good for hiding passwords in the database comparing password is done via the PWDCOMPARE function
2002-07-18
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sp to transform a UniqueIdentifier to a String
Uses the system relatively Undocumented sp sp_MSguidtostr to do the conversion from a GUID to a string
2002-07-18
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A simple CrossTab procedure
this procedure gets a tableName,X axis column, Y axis column and a Value and draw a Pivot table from the Original Table Script also include an How to Use section
2002-07-15
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Adding Sorts to SQL Server Views
Microsoft says that you cannot add an ORDER BY to a view unless it comes with a TOP clause at the beginning of the query. Many people think that if that's true then you cannot "Order" the whole query but only the top few. However, this is not true because when you use TOP 100 […]
2002-07-11
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Generating automatic select stmt for all columns
Here's how to use the derived table technique to generate an automatic script for selecting all columns in a table:
2002-07-11
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Get a summarized report of all DataBases options
This SELECT will give you a summarized report for the options selected for ALL the databases on your SQL Server. It's compatible with versions 7 and 2000.
2002-07-11
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Read a text file from SQL Server query analyzer
Here's a script that will read a text file from the Windows system into SQL Server
2002-07-11
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Finding the Nth Maximal Value
This procedure gets a tablename, column and an integer number N as parameters and finds the Nth maximum value of the column's value in a table for example : running it with 'products', 'UnitPrice' , 13 , @reswill get the 13TH largest value of unitprice from products is no such N exist an error message […]
2002-07-10
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Get SQL Server default collation
PROCEDURE used to find the server's default collation not shown in EM in servers properties
2002-07-10
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More Friendly version of sp_lock system sp.
This SQL Server stored procedure generates more readable output from the system sp_lock procedureinstead of getting object ids and session ids it returns the object name and user name
2002-07-10
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RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers