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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Hello,I posted this a while ago to several web sites. Someone found an obscure bug in it and I fixed it (newest script attached below). When I posted it to you last time, it didn't show up in any of the categories that I had checked; hmmmm? However, when I searched google, you have it […]
2007-06-13 (first published: 2004-09-28)
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This ActiveX Script runs in DTS Designer and will clean up all unused connection objects. This allows you to rename connections at will by selecting "New Connection" and typing a new name. It also allows you to copy and paste connections then rename them. Then you can cleanup leftover connections when development is complete.
2007-06-12 (first published: 2005-01-05)
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This script checks the latest backup of all databases. Then it write a logfile with this timestamp. all backups older than one day will be marked as ERROR.
2007-06-11 (first published: 2005-06-30)
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This script helps you synchronizing ALL orphaned database users to syslogins of the new database server. To run it, pass the target database name in on the first line.
2007-06-08 (first published: 2005-08-27)
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This stored procedure will loop through all of the Analysis Services databases in the repository and back them up to a .cab file using the msmdarch command. A log file will be included with the backup.There will be 2 days worth of backups saved to a local disk drive on the server.It may be necessary […]
2007-06-07 (first published: 2005-05-25)
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There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers