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Recursive Queries in SQL:1999 and SQL Server 2005

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How many of you have written resursive queries in SQL? Or any language since school for that matter? Not many people write recusrive queries because of the complexity, the difficulty to understand how they work, and the chance for heap overflows. However, SQL Server 2005 implements Common Table Expressions and recursion in a way that is much easier to code and incorporates some safeguards. New author SQL Server MVP Frederic Brouard has written a fantastic article looking at resursive queries.

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2008-05-16 (first published: )

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HexToINT

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An optimized function for converting a HEX string into a INT. Built for being faster then other HexToDec converters.Slightly slower then HexToSMALLINT.If there is any faster function to do this conversion, I am intrested of using it instead.

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2005-05-04 (first published: )

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Optimized HexToSMALLINT

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An optimized function for converting a HEX string into a SMALLINT. Built for being faster then other HexToDec converters.If there is any faster function to do this conversion, I am intrested of using it instead.

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2006-10-11 (first published: )

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usp_KillUsers2

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This script expands on the usp_KillUsers script posted by Brian Knight, by adding the text of the process that is being killed and will even kill users who are accessing the database from with in a process of another database. Does not contain the NET SEND option though.

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2005-04-22 (first published: )

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Search for text in procedures (no cursors) UPDATE

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This is an update to the Search for text in procedures (no cursors) function (excellent script), which lists all of the objects (searching in syscomments, so it excludes tables). I have added a 2nd column to the output of the object type.

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2005-04-06 (first published: )

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