Reaching the Outer Limits
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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T-SQL
Stored Procedure to Pause Execution
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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Script All Object Permissions
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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Using the DATEDIFF function to select rows
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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Divide big delete into several small ones
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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Function to Return the Amount of Children in a Tree
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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Working with email addresses in SQL Server!
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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Example of How to use set IDENTITY_INSERT
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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Get computer Net Name in T-SQL
procedure is an extended xp called xp_getNetName to get the computer network identifcation name
2002-07-18
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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