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Record Count for Tables

This script was created for an Oracle to SQL 2005 migration. It creates a table, and then populates it with the record counts for each table in a given schema. (You will need to replace the xxxx text with your schema name for it to work). I prefer populating a table with this data, then […]

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2007-09-24 (first published: )

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proc to order xp_enumerrorlog

this is a quick stored procedure I put together when trying to find a log for a particular day (xp_enumerrorlogs returns the archive is as a varchar, so 1 is followed by 11, 12 etc rather than 2) sp_display_errorlogs with no parms returns output in archive id order. if the parm 'size' is passed in, […]

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2007-09-21

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A Simply way to implement Audit Trail in SQL 2005

In a recent project, I need to record audit trail for some tables (for Insert, Update and Delete).Using SQL 2005's XML datatype and the XML support it is very covenienet to use triggers to perform the audit trail requirement. I create one table (Table_Audit)  to hold all audit trial data. One stored procedure is created […]

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2007-09-20

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Delete constraints - SQL Server 2005

This script will DELETE ALL constraints within the database that you define and in the following order: Foreign Key, Primary Key and then Unique Key.CAUTION:This script does not print out the ALTER TABLE statements, it drop the constraints immediately, therefore backup your database before testing or using this script. I ran the script below and […]

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2007-09-19 (first published: )

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_Select Update

I made some modifications to D Simmon's original sp.  1. I added dynamic feature to query tables in other databases (not linked servers) from one sp. I know dynamic sql isn't preferable in most cases but this is the route I took for this.  2. I enabled table name to be sent with owner qualification […]

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2007-09-18 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Getting the Average

I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.

salesperson commission
Brian       12
Brian       16
Andy        7
Andy        14
Andy        21
Steve       20
Steve       NULL
All the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
     , AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
 FROM commission
 GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve?

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