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Script to gather informations on databases

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The script is design to gather informations on the growth of the databases per server (except the system ones).It is collecting in the 'databases' table of the master database for current information and in 'histodatabases' for old ones.It is possible to schedule the stored procedure.The column Serveur is only for gathering information on one server […]

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2002-12-17

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UDF Luhn's formula-credit card number validation

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This UDF will validate a credit card number using Luhn's formula.For example 49927398716 will return 1:print dbo.luhn('49927398716')print dbo.luhn(49927398716)11based on:Credit cards, validation and the Luhn formulabyEduardo Chaveshttp://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/validation.htmlAlgorithm converted to TSQL by Joseph Gama

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2002-12-12

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FTP files using SQL stored procedure

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This stored procedure takes four parameters1)file to ftp2)server name or IP3)ftp login4)ftp passwordSP will ensure that local file exists before continuing,it will create and execute a batch file in order to push the file to the remote FTP server.--exec exampleEXEC dbo.up_FTPPushFile 'c:\temp\test.txt', 'server', 'user', 'password'

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2002-12-09

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Function to express numeric value in words

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There is a requirement here to take a number (such as 124995) and express it in words.  We needed a function to do this, as it would be used in an existing document generation system.I have developed the enclosed two functions to do this.  Note that the function does not, currently, cater for negative numbers, […]

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2002-12-06

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zPad() - add leading zeros to a number

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This user-defined function converts a number to character format and adds leading zeroes to pad the field to a specified length.  useful for displaying SSNs or other numeric fields where the leading 0's are significant but the field is stored as numeric.To use:select dbo.zPad(, )make sure your length includes an extra column for the sign.  […]

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2002-12-05

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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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