2009-09-08 (first published: 2009-08-31)
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Scripts
Nth occurrence of a weekday in a month and year
To find date at nth occurrence of a weekday in a month and year
2009-09-07 (first published: 2009-09-01)
751 reads
2009-09-04 (first published: 2009-08-31)
2,295 reads
Move one Filegroup to another
This script copies all tables found in a specific filegroup to another specific filegroup.
2009-08-19
95 reads
Find all Procedures, Views, Functions that have been renamed
Find all Procedures, Views, Functions that have been renamed with sp_rename where syscomments does not match.
2009-08-17 (first published: 2009-08-06)
958 reads
BCP Format File Builder
Utility stored procedure to create non-xml format file for BCP/BULK INSERT processes. Very useful for text-qualified CSV files.
2009-08-14 (first published: 2009-08-04)
2,394 reads
Sending SMTP email from SQL Server using CDO
If you would like to send email from SQL Server, use this CDO method and store proceudre.
2009-08-13 (first published: 2009-07-29)
4,550 reads
Automatic Generation of Insert, Update and Delete stored procedures
This script automatically generates stored procedures for insert, update and delete operations on the given table
2009-08-12 (first published: 2009-07-23)
2,197 reads
Backup Both Full and TLog Database Backup within a single Job
This script is basically used in SQL Server 2005/2008 as that version not having the option to perform the same activity in the single window.
2009-08-11 (first published: 2009-07-23)
1,618 reads
Extract Objects of a Linked Server
In a scenario where we need to find out all the objects of a LINKED Server and check which object is accessible to us,
we need to write following query:
2009-08-07 (first published: 2009-07-20)
707 reads
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BIT_COUNT I
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers