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Scripting extended properties

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I use these to manage the addition and removal of extended properties on all tables and columns in my company's dbs.Rather than writing complicated joins or calling functions every time, I use views on sysobjects and INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. I tried to make these scripts as flexible as possible so you can reuse them in procedures, […]

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2006-01-05 (first published: )

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Bogus Resumes and Unblushing Lies

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Simple Talk's newest commentator, Phil Factor, reveals the dark side of hiring database specialists: "Soon after he had been shown his desk in our crowded, open-plan IT office, he began laughing out loud, sporadically and inappropriately, while reviewing code. It wasn't my code, so I didn't mind."

2005-11-10

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Simplify the Creation of XML from SQL Server Data

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SQL Server 2000 had extensions built in to allow you to work with XML data, however, most installations did not work with it. XML has proven that it is a very powerful way of transmitting and working with data, but creating it from relational data has proven to be difficult. New author Hugh Lynch, CTO of Restricted Stock Systems, Inc. brin gs us a method for easily creating XML from your SQL Servers.

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2005-10-27

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Script To Get the Report Execution log, ex. timetaken .

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this script lists the report Execution History ex: timetaken to render, retreive data, number of records retreived and their size etc.. in descending order of its execution timeReports the ReportName, its Path , TimeTaken to execute the report, retreive the data, render the report, total count of rows returned and the total data returned in […]

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2006-01-06 (first published: )

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How To Mess Up An Interview

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We started a trend with our Worst Practices, looking at things you should not do instead of those you should. Sean McCown has taken that to a new level looking at some things that you can do to ensure you don't get your next job. Read about a few things that you might avoid in your next interview.

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2005-10-17

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Script to Return a Transposed Data Row

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I often do the following when administering databases "select * from Table where PrimaryKey=value" and find the output in Query Analyzer is inconvenient to view when the table has many wide columns (which is often the case). This script returns a single entry from a table but "transposed" so that the data flows down the […]

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2005-11-10 (first published: )

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Automatically Running a Process When SQL Server or SQL Agent Starts

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Have you ever had a need to run a query or a process as soon as SQL Server starts? Or run some set of tasks when SQL Server Agent Starts? Possibly you want to run a cleanup routine, a copy process or have some task started each time SQL server or SQL Agent is started. Well if this is the case then this article will discuss a couple of options you might consider using to accomplish automatically running your process.

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2005-10-13

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