This isn't a SQL site nor can you easily do regular expressions from SQL. That said, sometimes regular expressions are EXACTLY what you need to solve a problem. The downside? They're tricky! This is a great resource to pass on to your development team.
2004-02-26
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This is a tool to generate C# code based on a sql script. Source code is also available for download. It's free! One caveat is that the site is in Italian.
2004-02-26
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IP addresses are represented as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx is an integer between 0 and 255. Each three-digit integer is called an octet, and all IP addresses comprise four octets.Help-desk applications and administrative tools often store the IP addresses for a company's PCs in a database. An IP address can be represented either as a single […]
2004-02-25
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This sp will return the dependency details of the select table or all tables as a resultset. This resultset will display the dependency details if it is used in 1. select * from table or2. insert/delete/update dml statement or 3. select col1, col2 from table.
2004-02-25
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This article is for developers (and is in C#), looks at how you can avoid requerying by storing data in a hashtable. Mainly code, but you may get a good idea or two from it.
2004-02-25
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I have been tasked with a daunting job of scripting I/U/D triggers for our new database. The job of the triggers is to Audit the activity on the tables. What column was changed to what value on what table and by whom. With over 60 tables, this is a daunting task. So off I went […]
2004-02-24
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I want to thank James Travis for his original and excellent work and to Razvan Socol for alerting about a similar problem that led me to improve James' code. The problem is that when searching for a word that is split between two 8kb blocks, James' code would ignore it. The solution is to look […]
2004-02-21
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The purpose of this SP is to provide a method in T-SQL to launch another T-SQL thread without havingto wait for its completion. Uses fairly basic calls to create and execute SQL Jobs. Contains helpfull notes and documentation.
2004-08-10 (first published: 2004-02-17)
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Looking for a good (or another) TSQL reference? This might be the one. Bruce took a good look at it and points out both the good and the bad.
2004-02-17
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Quest Software has recently released TOAD for SQL Server, a freeware version of its highly popular Oracle tool - TOAD
2004-02-17
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers