There is a great article on SQLServerCentral on an Extended Stored Procedure http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/freeencryption.asp and this XP will undoubtedly perform better than my Function. However I had a need to encrypt a column in a shared hosted environment where I was not allowed to install XPs. Just copy script and paste into Query Analyzer
2007-06-26 (first published: 2006-01-12)
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DBCC page was decommissioned in 7.0 according BOL. Parameters have being changed, but the call itself remains. Following script shows some reverse engineering results.
2007-06-25 (first published: 2006-05-29)
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This is a first version of a custom solution for SQL Server log shipping using VB.NET 2005 and .NET Framework v.2.0. The script has to run on a server where you have SQL Server 2005 (or at least tools) installed because it uses new SMO. For some functions of the script you will have to […]
2007-06-22 (first published: 2006-06-05)
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Hi,exec sp_change_users_login 'report' displays the list of orphan USERS in a database but we don't have any builtin SP which displays the orphan LOGINS.By Orphan Logins (not users), I mean the Logins that don't have any access to any databases and are sitting idle on the server (also aren't member of any fixed server role).We […]
2007-06-21
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A database can have objects with multiple owners. The script will give you the list of all the TABLES, VIEWS and PROCEDURES having the specified owner. Just input the owner name and it will give you the list of all the Objects with that owner. This scope of the script is limited to the TABLES, […]
2007-06-21 (first published: 2006-01-30)
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Some time back i had the requirement for a SP which will give non repeatable random numbers with in a range. Following SP accepts a range and gives the random numbers. Once the numbers are exhausetd NULL, will be the out put. In this case user can restart the random number generation by passing 1 […]
2007-06-20 (first published: 2006-03-29)
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Use this Perl script to add Enterprise Manager registrations from a text file. The text file should contain three fields seperated by spaces. The first two fields are the server groups you want to create, and the last is the server name. ex...Production Accounting ACTPRSQL01QA Accounting ACTQASQL01The script also goes out and registers all SQL […]
2007-06-19 (first published: 2005-03-23)
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This script will give detials for all the enabled job including their steps/command/schedule.
2007-06-18 (first published: 2006-05-26)
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This is my attempt to improve the performance of propercasing a string of text in SQL server. I have run this against several other "looping constructs" - and it is significantly faster.
2007-06-15 (first published: 2005-10-17)
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This script creates 2 new system functions :fn__testregexp(@String,@Pattern) returns int execute the method test(@String) on the regular expressions @Pattern returns : 0 : no match 1 : match null : one of the parameters was null anything else : error from sp_OA procedure fn__replaceregexp(String,@Pattern,@Replace) returns varchar execute the method Replace(@String,@Replace) […]
2007-06-14 (first published: 2004-04-07)
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