The ability to page in SQL Server is one of those things that everyone wants, but can't quite seem to get from Microsoft. Many ideas have been posted, each claiming to be _the_ way to do it. In the spirit of mine is better than yours, I've implemented my own paging scheme.A feature that is […]
2004-11-01 (first published: 2004-08-13)
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SP_WHO_3 is a very powerful utility for all DBAs. It displays processes connected to the system and what they are doing. It can find blocking processes, can return the Input Buffer for everything in the recordset returned, and provides immense filtering and sorting capabilities. It's designed to be extremely efficient, yet it provides many more […]
2006-01-17 (first published: 2004-08-12)
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This UDF takes a delimited string and parses it into "words" which are returned as rows in a table. The table returned indicates the position of each element in the source string, and converts values to integer and numeric formats if possible.The script contains examples on how to use the function.the original version was written […]
2005-09-26 (first published: 2004-08-10)
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SP_WHO_3 is a very powerful utility for all DBAs. It displays processes connected to the system and what they are doing. It can find blocking processes, can return the Input Buffer for everything in the recordset returned, and provides immense filtering and sorting capabilities. It's designed to be extremely efficient, yet it provides many more […]
2004-11-09 (first published: 2004-08-05)
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After seeing a thread in the forums about converting a Julian date to Gregorian, I decided to write these functions. There are two functions in the script, getJulian and getGregorian. getJulian accepts a datetime parameter and returns the Julian date as an integer. getGregorian accepts an integer and returns the Gregorian date as datetime. A […]
2004-10-18 (first published: 2004-08-03)
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integer IP-address converted to varchar dot-notationUsage SELECT dbo.IPNumberToString(-2037012288)
2004-10-20 (first published: 2004-07-29)
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What do your programmers do with nulls? Do they know nullif, isnull, what about the powerful coalesce function? Do they think DBA's look at the world differently? Why, it's all code isn't it?
2004-07-29
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If you set up a default on a column AFTER data has been entered, then this procedure will apply the default to all NULL values within that column. Limitations: It only works with numeric values right now.You will also need the INSTR function, which you can also get from this site.This is my first […]
2004-10-13 (first published: 2004-07-22)
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Know anything about bowling? Or writing hard core TSQL? Or test driven development? Even if you don't, this might be a good way to build those skills. Write a stored procedure that can score a bowling game and you might win one of our books and a shirt!
2004-07-22
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Based on a script from this site, which sets ownership of all objects to dbo, this modification of the original author's code simply adds user defined functions (UDF's). Script now includes tables, views, procs and functions.
2004-10-07 (first published: 2004-07-19)
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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