For performance concerns or when the need arises to do some data manipulation/updates/inserts or any other code that requires a loop, use a table variable instead of the ever expensive cursor.
2003-04-01
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Some time you need to know only Date without Time.This is simple function that allows you truncate datetime field to date only.This function can help you to construct dynamic T-SQL for select date period. P.S. Thanks for ispaleny! Conversion only for real not enough! It is necessary convert to real that correct errors near the […]
2003-03-28
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Andy recently implemented a SAN and shares some of the info he picked up during the purchase and implementation. This article also discusses briefly the differences between SAN and NAS, and has some links to other sites for more info as well.
2003-03-28
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This is a sp_password enhanced by Dmitri Bobkov (see http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/718.asp) and re-enhanced with a small changes from SQL2kSP3.For SQL Server in Mixed Authentication mode this stored procedure helps to validate users password. Currently this procedure checks for the next requrements: password must have length at least 8 characters plus among them at least one digit […]
2003-03-27
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When you want to export a table structure to T-SQL, everyone always points you to Enterprise Manager, or a script that calls BCP.Sometimes, a developer either doesn't have access to those tools, or just doesn't want to use them (like me) out of spite.I made this T-SQL because it was educational, and noone else seems […]
2003-03-26
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Chris Kempster (frequent contributor to the site) has released an ebook titled SQL Server 2000 for the Oracle DBA. The press release contains a brief overview of the book plus links to several reviews. Priced at $20 per copy, not bad at all!
2003-03-25
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This script will obscure email addresses from robots even ones that ignore the tags to not snoop. Usually robots that ignore the tags, and the robots.txt file are used by spammers. They pull down the SOURCE of your page and scrape the email addresses from them. This script breaks the mail href into its base […]
2003-03-23
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The three functions here can be used to store Bit Masks as Integers.These are functions to convert an integer into a binary string. This can be useful if you store Bit Masks in your database as integers.For example .. '00000000000011111001001001110011' to 1020531Each Bit could represent an ON or OFF value. One integer columncould be equivalent […]
2003-03-21
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Lockwood Tech continues to grow it's product line! This link points to an info page provided by the vendor that highlights the capabilities of this reporting product.
2003-03-20
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A Procedure gather Server Statistic per day or per run this Procedure.Output: Table TBL_SERVERSTATISTICS. You can use the results to analyze SQL-Server performance problems. You can analyze what changed after install new hardware or software, add or remove Application/DB/File/Index/Table etc.Recommendations: Run a Procedure once every day.Warning: If sql-server restarted after last run a Procedurecurrent running […]
2003-03-13
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