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User-Defined string Functions SQLCLR MS SQL 2005

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 […]

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2007-06-04 (first published: )

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help to tighten use of  cmdshell  or sp_start_job

-- The goal is to avoid the use of sp_start_job in an application. So we have the application use RAISERROR to activate the job.--  1) because you can only start jobs you own--  2) we don't want to open the cmdshell to everyone--  3) we want control regarding jobs that run on our server.--  4) […]

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2007-05-31 (first published: )

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Script to perform http(s) post

Post data as coming from an HTML FORM with METHOD=POST to an URL and retrieve the result. The script uses the WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 object.Call like :exec dbo.usp_httppost 'http://www.sqlservercentral.com/search/turbo.asp','searchstring=ftp&btnG= Go &cArticles=on&cForums=on&cScripts=on&sitesearch=http://www.sqlservercentral.com'

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2007-05-30 (first published: )

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Detect invalid FK-data after using "WITH NOCHECK"

In situations where FK's have been created using the "WITH NOCHECK" option you can get into troubles because the FK-data is not checked ! (so there may be invalid data in the FK-column !)E.g. ALTER TABLE [dbo].[mytable] WITH NOCHECK add constraint [FK__USED_RESO__Actio__1162CF5F] FOREIGN KEY ( Action_Type ) REFERENCES [dbo].[Action_Types] ( Action_Type ) BOL states "... […]

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2007-05-29 (first published: )

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Function to Split a Delimited String into a Table

This function splits a delimited string (up to 4000 characters long) into a single column table. The delimiter can be specified at the time of execution. If not specified, the delimiter defaults to a comma. The default length of each value is 100, but that can easily be changed.An example for usage:DECLARE @string NVARCHAR(4000)DECLARE @instruments […]

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2007-05-25 (first published: )

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Get record count for every table in a database

I wrote this code to make it easier to compare record counts between a live database and a restored copy to test my backups, I thought people might find it useful. You need to run it against your live side when you do the backup that you're going to restore and compare against.Copy the output […]

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2007-05-24 (first published: )

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Display results VERTICALLY in Results window

DESCRIPTION:This procedure will allow you to display results vertically (down) instead of across the screen. It's great when you are dealing with a query that has 50 columns and just a couple of records. LIMITATIONS: * It will be very slow if you are trying to return a lot of records. Works best for queries […]

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Question of the Day

Checking Identities

The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:

TravelLogID CityID  StartDate   EndDate
1           1       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
2           2       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
3           3       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
4           4       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
5           5       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
6           6       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
7           7       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
8           8       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
9           9       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
10          10      2025-01-11  2025-01-16
The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
    CityID,
    StartDate,
    EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above?

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