T-SQL

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sp_DBCompare

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This simple script make a comparison between two given database. It compare: The table present in both database            The data type, lenght, nullability, precision for each table.            The object present in both database. The StoredProc is able to compare database across different server, simple make […]

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2002-10-31

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Latest DTS Package Log

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This script returns the latest package log for the DTS package specified in the @package_name variable.  The interface for viewing DTS package logs through Enterprise Manager is limited in the fact that it doesn't provide textual descriptions of the values for the Step Execute Status and Step Execute Results.  This makes it difficult to trace […]

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2002-10-22

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Get Number of Days in month

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Have seen existing scripts to work out number of days in month. They tend to work out the month, and then whether it's a leap year.Another approach is to take the date passed in, find the first day of the next month, and then use Datadd to take off one day, ie: last day of […]

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2002-10-17

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Create And Execute Table Script (SQL Server 2000)

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This SP will only work on SQL Server 2000 and can be placed in your master database. sp_CreateAndExecTableScript is designed to script one table and create an identical table. I designed it to use with DTS packages so that I can create an identical table with a different name, pump data into the table and […]

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2002-10-15

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Divide big delete into several small ones

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Big transactions cause the Tlog to grow.When you do a clean of a large table, the delete statement can cause a very long transactionSometimes it's necessary to prevent this.So we divide one big delete into several little ones.A table with call centre data gets +/- 1-mlj records a day. Every day we run a script […]

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2002-08-27

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The Large Encoded Value

I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?

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