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Modified SP_who

Here is a modified SP_WHO procedurewhich returns more information about the current session.I forgot all the thing that i have added to the sproc, but the last addition shows the last executed TSQL statement.There might be a better solution to get the values from DBCC rowset, thou I did not have time to think everything […]

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2002-05-28

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Procedure for Random Numbers

Here is handy procedure to generate random number.I find it useful when I generate large amount of test data in a database.For example if you need to create a Customer Data and what they have purchased in the last month to run perfrmance tests on large amount of data an set up necessary indexes.You can […]

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2002-05-13

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Cursorless Cursor

Here is as sample of implementing cursor.In some cases my tests showed that this approach performs better than native cursors in SQL Server.All you have to do is move the dataset into a temp table with a new Identity column and then use a simple loop to extract the data as you would do normally […]

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2002-05-06

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I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:

CREATE TABLE Response
( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY
, ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000)
)
GO
If 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?

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