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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Import database from source server using full and transaction log backups as recorded in msdb. Use it to import one or more databases to your development environment, to test your backups regularly or to move databases to a new server. Works on SQL 7 and SQL 2000 with native and/or LiteSpeed full backups and native […]
2007-06-06 (first published: 2005-06-29)
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This was just an answer in a forum in September, but I keep getting requests for the script. So I am sharing it here for anyone that could be interested: Problem: large amount of registered servers, multiple DBA's needing updated registration info, DBA workstations added or rebuilt, many servers added at once. In cases like […]
2007-06-05 (first published: 2005-01-26)
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User-Defined string Functions MS SQL Server 2005 Transact-SQL SQLCLR (VB. Net, C#.Net, C++. Net) Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to offer, free of charge, the following string functions MS SQL Server 2005 Transact-SQL SQLCLR (VB. Net, C#.Net, C++. Net): AT(): Returns the beginning numeric position of the nth occurrence of a character expression within […]
2007-06-04 (first published: 2006-02-03)
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Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
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I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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