Counter Table (table of numbers) Setter-Upper for SQL Server 2000
Sets up 3 'table of numbers' that completely fill a 1, 2, and 3-level clustered index respectivly with 620, 384400, and 238328000 numbers.
2008-08-05
504 reads
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Counter Table (table of numbers) Setter-Upper for SQL Server 2005
Sets up 3 'table of numbers' that completely fill a 1, 2, and 3-level clustered index respectivly with 622, 386884, and 240641848 numbers.
2008-08-05
1,161 reads
Delimited String Parsing Functions - Big Set
Feed it large strings of delimited horizontal data and it returns it back as a vertical table.
2008-08-05
1,418 reads
2008-08-05 (first published: 2008-06-12)
3,444 reads
Java's String.hashCode() function in T-SQL
T-SQL function to takes a string and produce an integer hashcode matching what is produced by the Java String.hashCode() method.
2008-08-04 (first published: 2008-06-11)
1,354 reads
Get record count for a all databases
This is an addition to Jim Rea's "Get record count for a specific database". I modified it to loop through all databases and provide counts.
2008-08-01
1,194 reads
Grant Permission to Specific objects(e.g. SP's)
Grant permissions to specific objects in Database using dynamic SQL.
2008-08-01 (first published: 2008-06-08)
2,636 reads
2008-08-01
843 reads
2008-07-29 (first published: 2008-06-08)
1,293 reads
2008-07-28 (first published: 2008-05-28)
4,289 reads
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers