2006-11-28 (first published: 2006-10-11)
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Scripts
Remove Exec Permissions To Extended Stored Procs
I created this script to simplify the process of restricting access to high risk extended stored procedures. It will find any user or role which has execute permissions on any of the stored procedures in the "#High_Risk_Stored_Procs" temp table and will generate the relevant revoke statements to remove those permissions.The current list of stored procedures […]
2006-11-27 (first published: 2006-11-07)
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Kill Connections to Specific Database
Ever needed to drop all connections to a database? Here is an easy way to do it.
2006-11-24 (first published: 2006-11-08)
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Whose birthday next?
sort employee birthday by on coming order. If the person's birthday is yesterday, s/he should be in the bottom.
2006-11-23 (first published: 2004-12-29)
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Format Value To Currency
Create SQL Function To Format To Currency(for more scripts goto http://www.siccolo.com/articles.html)
2006-11-21
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Know the JOBNAME and JOBOWNER
As an administrator it is required sometimes to list out the job owners.This is a simple script that will allow to fetch this information. By applying a filter a specific job owner list can be fetched.
2006-11-21 (first published: 2006-01-30)
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(Dutch) Elfproef in T-SQL UDF
In The Netherlands we use bankaccountnumbers that need to comply to a test call 'elfproef'. This test evaluates the sum of each number multiplied by the position the number appears in the accountnumber. If the modulos of the sum divided by 11 is zero then the accountnumber is valid. The length of a bankaccountnumber in […]
2006-11-20 (first published: 2004-12-14)
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Remove multiple whitespace from a string: revise
This is a re-written function that the idea got from yesterday's script. This function used a recursive call to simplify the script.
2006-11-17 (first published: 2004-09-20)
239 reads
Last_Date_Of_Month
Get the Last date of the month for the given month and year In response to a post By: Anonymous - Posted: 2/16/2004 3:31:12 AM (Stored Procedure).... Thought that there should be a more efficient / functional way of doing this. And here it is. Of course, a function would probably be more efficient, and […]
2006-11-16 (first published: 2004-09-30)
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Merge Wizard
In our environment, we needed to create and drop replication over and over in our test environment and I got realy tired of having to manualy go to each table with an identity column to set its ranges. This sproc will create or drop the publications and/or subscriptions for all or some of the objects […]
2006-11-15 (first published: 2001-09-05)
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers