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Script to validate user input for password change

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For SQL Server in Mixed Authentication mode thisstored procedure helps to validate users password. Currently this procedure checks for the next requrements: password must have length at least 8 characters plus among them at least one digit and at least one of the characters must be in upper case.

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2003-03-11

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Add files to filegroups and log for many dbs

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Purpose: This SP is used to add a logfile and a datafile to each file group in a database or all databases. This is handy when you have a lot of databases and you want to add a new big SAN-disk and stop db expansion on the old disks.Consider: Avoid running any large updates when […]

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2003-03-06

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Intervention system for runaway jobs

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Some of my developers had created jobs that executed VB applications that never ended. Aparently they could not figure out when, why and what was going wrong. They could not repro the situation.Now I've created this litle system so the users can assign max elaps times for their jobs. These jobs will then be intercepted […]

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2003-03-04

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NEW and DELETED Database REPORT

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A Procedure build Report about NEW and Deleted DB.First time you must to run p_build_check_db.This procedure build table  master..t_databases same asmaster..sysdatabases .Procedure  p_check_db compare t_databases and sysdatabases and send a report to your@E-MailAddress.Best regards. Vadim.  

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2003-02-20

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A Big PK

In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary  Key constraint?

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