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Regular Expression Library

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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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Parsing an IP address into its separate octets

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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 […]

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2004-02-25

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Automate Audit Trigger Generation

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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 […]

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2004-02-24

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Find a string in Procedures, Triggers, etc

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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 […]

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2004-02-21

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