I want to thank James Travis for his original and excellent work and to Razvan Socol for alerting about a similar problem that led me to improve James' code. The problem is that when searching for a word that is split between two 8kb blocks, James' code would ignore it. The solution is to look […]
2004-02-21
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Joseph gathered together some various bits of code and came up with a solution that lets you do RC4 encryption via the sp_oa~ procedures.
2004-01-09
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Joseph discusses some common and not so common security threats including the possibility of a TSQL virus and bombs planted from within the organization.
2003-12-29
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2003-01-14
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This UDF returns the Service Pack versionprint dbo.ServicePackversion()
2003-01-14
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This UDF will return the checksum for a SP or UDF to help tracking changes to the code.Example:print dbo.OBchecksum('hello')
2003-01-07
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This free extended stored procedure can read and write to a stored text file. Perfect for writing error logs!
2002-12-24
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This UDF will validate a credit card number using Luhn's formula.For example 49927398716 will return 1:print dbo.luhn('49927398716')print dbo.luhn(49927398716)11based on:Credit cards, validation and the Luhn formulabyEduardo Chaveshttp://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/validation.htmlAlgorithm converted to TSQL by Joseph Gama
2002-12-12
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ASCII table and UNICODE tableYou can easily change the font of "SQL Query Analyzer":TOOLS/OPTIONS/FONTS
2002-12-11
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This SP will create an Access database from TSQL using ADOX.Instead of Access, the Provider can be changed so that it will create *any* kind of database from DBase 3, Oracle, Excel, etc...
2002-12-11
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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