In a recent project, I need to record audit trail for some tables (for Insert, Update and Delete).Using SQL 2005's XML datatype and the XML support it is very covenienet to use triggers to perform the audit trail requirement. I create one table (Table_Audit) to hold all audit trial data. One stored procedure is created […]
2007-09-20
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Calculates server uptime in days, hours, and minutes. Also calculates the UTC date (smalldatetime) when the server was started.
2011-11-17 (first published: 2007-08-31)
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Delete Duplicates in SQL Server without using Cursor or Temporary tables
2012-06-21 (first published: 2006-11-22)
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Script can be used to find out the objects which are available in other database and are referenced in your stored procedure. These objects will not be listed with sp_depends system stored procedure.
2007-07-31 (first published: 2006-11-21)
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Show line of code executing - more details than dbcc inputbuffer
2007-07-18 (first published: 2006-10-16)
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This script will give you the facility to search for Particular Data in the Database, To know where exactly that data store(Table Name and Field Information)You Have to Just chage the Name of the Database and the Search String....
2006-09-29 (first published: 2006-09-13)
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This procedure will give the list of columns included in the primary key for a given table of given database on given server.For. e.g.Get_PrimaryKey 'vrs-118','Demo_StDB','IMAGEREPOSITORY'
2007-02-14 (first published: 2006-08-25)
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This script will create two views and select the data from the TableReferences view. This view will give list of all the foreignkeys of the selected database with its constraint name, the table name and column name(s) on which the constraint is created and the referencing table name and column name(s).
2006-09-25 (first published: 2006-08-25)
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A user defined function that converts an integer value to an IP address in dot notation format. This is performed by promoting a 32 bit signed integer value to a signed 64 bit bigint and converted to a binary representation of the integer. The purpose of this script is to allow the storage of an […]
2005-11-01 (first published: 2005-09-21)
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Split function accepts a string and a delimeter.It divides the string in words by the delimeter.
2005-07-14 (first published: 2005-06-22)
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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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