2021-03-25
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2021-03-25
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2009-02-02
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Here is another "deleting duplicate records" script, this time in-place, using a uniqueidentifier column.
2009-01-15 (first published: 2008-12-30)
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If you attach a DB on an SQL Server different from the SQL Server where the DB was initially created, you will usually come up with a situation where a login will be a DB user however, you cannot see this through the login properties screen. That happens because the name of the login exists […]
2005-04-21 (first published: 2005-04-02)
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The usual practice, when we need some test data, is to employ the pseudo-random built-in function RAND(). We usually use it to produce a random value in some range and it produces these values with the same probabilities. Sometimes we need more "realistic" data when some values are more probable than others are. In this […]
2002-10-04
278 reads
This store procedure outputs the tables' usage figures in a usable (I hope) format. If you create in the master database it will show the information for the database that it runs against.
2002-04-11
388 reads
The script calculates the end and the beginning of the last, the current and the next months.
2002-04-01
994 reads
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:
DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers