When installing a SQL Server 2005 instance on your SQL 2000 machine, there are upgrade and compability issues such as linked servers, multi-server administration and log shipping.
2007-08-06
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This Function is written to split Multivalued Parameter passed by Reporting Services 2005.
2012-07-16 (first published: 2007-08-01)
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Managing a large number of servers can be quite the challenge for many DBAs and it seems to get worse each year as more servers are added without an increase in staffing. New author Mark Tierney brings us the first part of a series on the framework he's built to help manage his servers.
2007-08-01
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SQL Scripter is an open-source console tool for generating SQL Server DDL. Written in C# using .NET 2.0, SQL Scripter provides front-ends for MSBuild, NAnt and the Windows command line. Each front end supports syntax for specifying which types of database objects to script, including all objects of a type or directly named instances.SQL Scripter […]
2007-10-12 (first published: 2007-07-31)
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this a quick sproc I put together to do various collation checks. databases that have different collations from serverdatabases that have different collations of columns withindatabases that have column collations different from database collation
2007-11-06 (first published: 2007-07-27)
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It might not be useful now, but if you ever wanted to downsize the amount of data that you keep in your datawarehouse, good luck. This will help you do that. This job is set to shrink it down to 120 days, but you can adjust it as you like. Runs again in 5 day […]
2007-10-16 (first published: 2007-07-26)
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I wrote this script because our MOM Datawarehousing got so damn behind.Every time the windows Scheduled task tried to run to warehouse the dataout of OnePoint, it would puke because the SQL log would fill up. Thisallows you to start so many days out and it will increment it down by the number of days […]
2007-10-18 (first published: 2007-07-26)
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Quick and accurate method to get the row count of each table in a given database. Execution time is dependent on the number of rows in each table.-- Girish (gvphubli)
2007-07-20
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This procedure produces a formatted report to list which tables, views and table functions have a column of the specified name. This is particularly useful in systems that do not enforce referential integrity or when schema changes are being evaluated.
2007-10-22 (first published: 2007-07-19)
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When changing schema or modifying an application it is often necessary to determine when a column from a specific table is used. This procedure produces a formatted report (when outputting from query analyzer or management studio in text mode) that specifies all of the procedures, views, functions and triggers that use the designated table.column.
2007-10-10 (first published: 2007-07-19)
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By Steve Jones
I wrote a piece on the new SUBSTRING in SQL Server 2025 and got...
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I am dealing with issues on my SQL Server 2022 instance related to collation. I have an instance collation of Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS, but a database collation of Latin1_General_CI_AS. I want to force a few queries to run with a specified collation by using code like this:
DECLARE @c VARCHAR(20) = 'Latin1_General_CI_AS'
SELECT p.PersonType,
p.Title,
p.LastName,
c.CustomerID,
c.AccountNumber
FROM Person.Person AS p
INNER JOIN Sales.Customer AS c
ON c.PersonID = p.BusinessEntityID
COLLATE @c
Will this solve my problem? See possible answers