Remember OBJECTPROPERTY(..) when investigating objects.
The object property function appears to be often overlooked.
This function will tell us about any schema scoped object in the...
2011-01-20
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Check that what you expected is actually what you got - DB's and SQLCMD
I feel that it is wise move for a script to actually check itself that the database connection that is...
2011-01-20
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Check that what you expected is actually what you got - DB's and SQLCMD
I feel that it is wise move for a script to actually check itself that the database connection that is...
2011-01-16
1,393 reads
The OUTPUT clause
One of the features that I have been using quite a lot lately is the OUTPUT clause.
This clause can be...
2011-01-09
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Aliases in SQL Server 2008
Recently I set up replication and as the target server was not on our domain I initially used an IP...
2010-09-20
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SQL Server 2008 Surface Area Configuration
Ever wondered what happened to the SQL 2005 Surface Area Configuration Utility in SQL SERVER 2008.
Well you can accomplish pretty...
2010-09-14
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Naming Keys & Constraints
G'day,
This is pretty much my first blog post - at least on sqlservercentral.com - so to get started I thought that I'd...
2010-09-01
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers