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 […]
2002-10-15
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What's this error:Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to data type int? It was a new one to me, but read on to find out what it means.
2002-10-14
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Ever needed to pause in a SQL script? Or wanted to simulate a long running process for testing? This stored procedure accepts an integer and pauses for that many seconds.
2002-10-04
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Quick and dirty script to generate the required SQL to reinstate permissions on each user object. This can be saved off for DR purposes.
2002-09-24
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I keep seeing people using CONVERT to convert a date to a varchar in order to do comparison or search queries. I haven't seen a situation yet where DATEDIFF can't be used.
2002-08-29
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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 […]
2002-08-27
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Assuming we have the following table (that stores hierarchical data) :CREATE TABLE [staff] ( [employee] [int] NOT NULL , [employee_name] [varchar] (10) NULL , [supervisor] [int] NULL , PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [employee] ) ON [PRIMARY] , FOREIGN KEY ( [supervisor] ) REFERENCES [staff] ( [employee] ))I ‘ll built a […]
2002-08-23
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This article shows you how to design the storage for email addresses, how to validate email addresses, how to retrieve demographic information from email addresses efficiently, using computed columns and indexes. It also covers the security aspect of dealing with email addresses.
2002-08-01
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2002-07-19
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a Basic example of how to manipulate an IDENTITY COLUMN AN HOW TO STOP the automatic counting using SET IDETNTITY_INSERT
2002-07-18
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By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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