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Time Hour Dimension

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Use this script as part of your data warehouse projects. I created this script based on previous postings of the Date/Time Dimension. I wanted a dimension that does hours, minutes and seconds. Includes military and standard hours.

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2005-10-13 (first published: )

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Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation (Revised

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Getting "Subquery returned more than 1 value" error on cursors. Changed the following in a couple of places and it runs now. systypes.[name], --(SELECT systypes.[name] FROM systypes WHERE xtype = syscolumns.xtype), Mny thanks to whomever wrote the script. Saved me a bunch of effort."This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes […]

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2005-10-19 (first published: )

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VBScript to register lots of SQL Servers at once

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This script will create SQL Server top level groups in EM and then register a bunch of SQL Servers in their respective groups.The script maybe modified to as needed if the user does not wish to create groups. The script currently reads the list of servers tobe registered from a SQL Server database but could […]

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2005-10-21 (first published: )

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Use SQL-DMO and Excel to Quickly Create Reports for Auditors

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Auditing SQL Server, or any system, is not an easy task and with new regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, it is becoming a full time job in some environments. Chad Miller brings us a way that he developed with Excel and some scripting to automate some of the security information for a large installation of SQL Servers.

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2005-10-04

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Replace script extension PRC with SQL

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When you tell Enterprise Manager to "Create one file per object" when scripting objects from the database it gives those scripts a PRC extension.Unfortunately SQL Query Analyser defaults to a .SQL extension.The following DOS command renames all .PRC files to .SQL

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2005-10-24 (first published: )

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Generate Upsert Script

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This script outputs the TSQL code to do perform an 'Upsert'.It depends on both the source & target tables having the same structure and rows being uniquely identified with a single field.Three variables need to be updated prior to execution of this script:@SourceTable: Table containing the data to be upserted@TargetTable = Table to be upserted […]

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2005-10-25 (first published: )

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To fetch the immediate previous and next row

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Consider an employee table containing name and age of the employees. Write a script to retrieve the row which contain the details of the employee whose age is 50 and also retrieve the immediate next and previous rows

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2005-10-27 (first published: )

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