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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Marty
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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
1,930 reads
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
1,394 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
982 reads
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
875 reads
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
447 reads
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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