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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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
I have a couple of SQL Agent job steps which run PowerShell commands of...
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I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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