Custom Logging in a transaction
Ever happened that your custom log got rolled back and you were left with nothing but an error_message()?
Try to log into a table variable.
2010-07-22 (first published: 2010-06-30)
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Scripts
2010-07-20 (first published: 2010-06-23)
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2010-07-19 (first published: 2009-11-16)
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2010-07-15 (first published: 2010-06-16)
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Parsing / breaking character separated values in a table in one query
At times, we have situation to parse the character separated string in the table column.
2010-07-14 (first published: 2010-06-17)
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2010-07-08 (first published: 2010-06-17)
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Get concatenated value for a column without cursor
This script provides comma separated values of one column for each value of another column. It provides it in SQL 2005 without using cursor.
2010-07-06 (first published: 2010-06-14)
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How to output datafiles location using sp_helpdb?
This is a quick way of outputting the location of your database files/dbsize/date created on your instance.
2010-07-02 (first published: 2010-06-06)
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Restore All Backups
SCRIPT TO RESTORE BACKUP FOR ALL DATABASES, PLACED IN FOLDER CALLED
ORIGIN_FOLDER, WITH THE INITIALS 'DBVF' AND EXTENSION '.BAK'
2010-06-30 (first published: 2010-06-08)
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2010-06-29 (first published: 2010-06-09)
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Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
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