You can search text in syscomments table like so:

SELECT DISTINCT so.name

FROM syscomments sc

INNER JOIN sysobjects so ON sc.id=so.id

WHERE sc.TEXT LIKE '%UKSQL01%'

This tendency...

In addition to reading blogs and forums, I spend a lot of time listening to audio podcasts while commuting in the car. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft's Channel...

I'm not certain what formatting "####0" represents, it could be padding with spaces or zeros, but basically it would be a CASE expression like so:

case inc_data.event_type

when 'c' then 'R'+left('00000'+cast(incident.incident_ref...

The SELECT won't be blocked, unless the SELECT attempts to read a page that has some type of exclusive lock on it. Update locks are generally at page level, unless...

Perhaps the table column you're inserting into needs an identity property. If you must define number externally, then use row_number() or insert into temp table containing identity column, and then...

When you display execution plan in SSMS, does it suggest any new index?

From what I see, it could at least use an index on Mark_No, but query plan analyzer may...

taigovinda (8/2/2013)

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Hi,

I have a concatenated field that is usually about 80 characters but sometimes has been up to 600 characters. It could conceivably be longer than that. How...

My portable toolbox includes a USB to SATA/IDE adapter, so I can easily pop the HD out of one laptop or PC and mount it on another, and it's useful...

prakashr.r7 (7/30/2013)

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Eric M Russell (7/26/2013)

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I wouldn't even attempt to use SSIS to make daily copies of tables with schemas that can change daily.

First, you can query INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS to determine if...

Many client access libraries (ADO.NET and LINQ) support CRUD operations for XML. Also, starting with Windows 2008 / Vista, the NTFS file system supports transactional writes. So, an XML document...

SQL Guy 1 (7/26/2013)

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Employee or consultant, it's not such important how I am called. But here is the situation, and I'll try to explain it as clear as possible....

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I wouldn't even attempt to use SSIS to make daily copies of tables with schemas that can change daily.

First, you can query INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS to determine if there have been any...

My Lenovo laptop came bundled with something called VeriFace, which can substitute facial recognition for login password. It also appears to encrypt files and folders using using facial recognition. However,...