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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This procedure is useful to find the dependents on a particular column in a table and deletes the dependents like 'Index','Relation ships'.This is developed in Sql Server 2005
2007-06-01 (first published: 2006-03-10)
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-- 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) […]
2007-05-31 (first published: 2004-01-21)
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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'
2007-05-30 (first published: 2005-01-19)
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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 "... […]
2007-05-29 (first published: 2006-10-09)
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Desc : This SQL statement will provide script for backup all your jobs.-- Remark : Grow-up "maximum characters per column" (for 8192) and disable "print column headers" in 'tools' / 'options'
2007-05-29 (first published: 2005-01-12)
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This PowerShell script will connect to an SSAS instance, enumerate ALL databases, and back each one up. You can then add this to either as a Scheduled Task or as a SQL Agent job.
2007-05-28 (first published: 2006-12-14)
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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 […]
2007-05-25 (first published: 2007-04-10)
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If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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