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Smart data archiving stored procedure

This stored procedure uses a series of input parametes to generate, and optionally execute a series of SQL commands to move production data to an archive table.  The procedure assumes that the production and archive tables will have the same structure.  The procedure uses the following input parameters:@SourceTable:  This is the name of the table […]

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2007-09-05 (first published: )

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Mirroring Job Switcher

I wrote this so that jobs associated with a mirrored database will run on the principal and not on the mirror.  Please send your comments on what implications I might be missing - I would appreciate that greatly.This procedure works in conjunction with a WMI alert you will setup in SQLSEVERAGENT -> Alerts ->Mirroring Status […]

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2007-09-04 (first published: )

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Clean up default constraints

The script scrapes out all default constraints (optional for particular column, table or script generation for the whole db) in SQL Server 2005 manner. Based on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsqlpro2k/html/sql00a11.asp

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2007-09-03 (first published: )

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PARSENAME Enhancement

The ParseName function is very useful for getting parts out of a string of characters between delimiters. But a limitiation is that you only can get four parts out, and the function only accepts dots as delimiters.The function I have written below overcomes that limitations, and add a new feature to enable "from left" and […]

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2007-08-27 (first published: )

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Display disk space stats for each table

Here is my replacement for sp_spaceused, I have altered it so that if no table is past in using the @objname parameter it loops through all the tables which is alot easyer than running the old one for each table and it displays the data one result set. So should be easyer to create a […]

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2007-08-23

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Squared Values

What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?

SELECT SQUARE('12')

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