Yet Another Deleting Duplicate Records (in-place)
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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Synchronize the DB user SID with the Login SID
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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Change the probability of the pseudo-random values
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
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Output all figures of the tables' usage
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
393 reads
Calculate End/Beginning of Last/Current/Next Month
The script calculates the end and the beginning of the last, the current and the next months.
2002-04-01
1,004 reads
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