How Safe are Your Passwords?
How safe are your SQL passwords? Use these free tools to find out how secure your passwords are and generate more secure passwords.
2002-12-10
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Get size in bytes of SP, View, Trigger, UDF or Rul
This UDF and its equivalent stored procedure will return the size of a stored procedure, view, rule or user defined function in bytes .
2002-12-07
127 reads
Decrypt Stored Procedures, Views and Triggers
This SP will decrypt Stored Procedures, Views or Triggers that were encrypted using "with encryption" There are 2 versions: one for SP's only and the other one for SP's, triggers and views version 1: INPUT: object name (stored procedure, view or trigger) version 2: INPUT: object name (stored procedure, view or trigger), object type('T'-trigger, 'P'-stored […]
2002-12-06
2,190 reads
123 TSQL functions
This is a collection of 123 TSQL functions for professional, academic or learning purposes. There are many conversions hexadecimal/octal/binary/Roman numerals, mathematical functions such as hyperbolic, logic and trigonometric. Combinatorial functions such as combinations, permutations (factorial), arrangements. Other interesting functions include turning a number into plain English, Morse code, EBCDIC and vice-versa, Levenshtein Distance (linguistics), encryption, […]
2002-12-05
1,069 reads
Find SA password with public role-perm test DBA
Find SA Password (Brute Force) with Public RoleFindSApublic is a brute-force password cracker that requires only public role.Possibilities returns how many different passwords are possible with 1 up to c characters from a universe of n different characters.Usage:FindSApublic nN is an integer which is the maximum length of the password to attempt cracking.Acknowledgmentsoriginal idea: David […]
2002-12-04
982 reads
Text to Speech + Convert Numbers to Words in 4 languages
These are functions and stored procedures to convert numbers to words, in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish. There is also a function to convert text to speech.
2002-12-04
181 reads
TSQL Encryption TEA, RC4, Vigenere, Caesar, XOR
Encrypt fields with these stored procedures and functions: TEA (new variant), TEA, RC4, Vigenere, Caesar, XOR, XOR8 for SQL Server This is a collection of stored procedures and encryption functions (UDF's) in TSQL.
2002-12-02
503 reads
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The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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