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Function to Format Select Queries to Columns

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This function will strip all extra spaces, CRLFs and tabs from a SELECT statement, from the SELECT keyword to the End of the Order By clause, then reformat the statement to put all keywords at the left margin and subordinate clauses indented by ONE Tab.  There is an example of a SELECT statement that came […]

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2003-12-07

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Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation

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This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all used fields), stored procedures (including used fields and parameters), database users, database settings and server settings.This script has been cobbled together from several others found on this site, so they deserve the recognition, not me 🙂Simply execute it […]

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2003-12-05

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Find Duplicate Indexes

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There are plenty of scripts out there that find duplicate indexes, but they all seem to use cursors.  I didn't want to use a cursor so I ended up creating a few that could handle the duplicates and decided to share this one.  This will return the table name and the names of the two […]

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2003-12-04

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OccursAny

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Returns the number of times any word in comma delimeted character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a comma delimeted character expression that OccursAny( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OccursAny( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OccursAny( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.Example:OccursAny('the,dog','The quick brown fox […]

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2003-12-03

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Flexible searching on tables

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In my company's web site there are search pages for allowing users to search info on one or more tables (or in my case a select with 10 joins). Often the requirements for these search pages change over time with users either requesting additional columns to search or remove columns that are no longer useful. […]

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2003-12-03

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Occurs

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Returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a character expression that OCCURS( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OCCURS( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OCCURS( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.

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2003-12-03

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Set logging properties for group of DTS packages

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This script will set the Logging properties for a group of DTS packages. To run this script stand-alone, you'll need to set 6 variables. sSvr, sDb, sUid, sPwd, iSec and sPkgMatch. If you use this script in a DTS package, you can assign the values from Global Variables. The sPkgMatch variable is used as a […]

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2003-12-01

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Question of the Day

Too Many Choices

I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:

BrandID OfficialName
1       Samsung
2       Apple
3       Microsoft
4       Adidas
5       Coca-Cola
I run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel')
FROM dbo.MasterBrands;

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