The following script will allow the user to get information from all spids that have a program name associated with them. That is event info out of dbcc inputbuffer. Additional columns may be added and used in the table through simple modifications of the script. I just found it useful for troubleshooting and setting up […]
2006-10-19 (first published: 2006-09-29)
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This script utilizes an undocumented extended procedure xp_regread to check the version of Microsoft Analysis Services' service pack version
2006-10-18 (first published: 2006-10-03)
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I just saw a script on this site for object search across the db's. I have written an alternate version with sp_msforeachdb undocumented sp which is much simpler.This avoids a lot of code and dynamic sql.Replace "object_name" with the name of the object which needs to be searched across the databases.
2006-10-17 (first published: 2006-03-29)
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2006-10-13 (first published: 2005-08-15)
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This Script will create a copy of your DTS Package; append "_Renamed" to the end of the package name; and rename every task and step in the copied package to Task/Step_TaskType_DescriptionText_Sequence. The resulting package will lose all of it's text annotations, the layout will be the designer default rather than the original latout. It can […]
2006-10-12 (first published: 2005-01-05)
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An optimized function for converting a HEX string into a SMALLINT. Built for being faster then other HexToDec converters.If there is any faster function to do this conversion, I am intrested of using it instead.
2006-10-11 (first published: 2005-04-19)
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Most of the luhn scripts assume that you are working with credit-cards and then IMPROPERLY calculate their luhn check-digit by starting at the left side (assuming that the core number is always 15 digits). However, if you don't know the length of your core number, then such an approach will fail when the length is […]
2006-10-10
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In this article I will try to justify why Table variables are superior to temporary tables.
2006-10-10
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Pagination of the records helps in faster and better display while generating a huge report or displaying hundreds of records on the screen. Performing the pagination through SQL script is some what tricky and an average developer finds it difficult to implement. Here I am suggesting the script to resolve the pagination problem.Use this script […]
2006-10-09 (first published: 2006-05-09)
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This function returns a formated calendar table. It came in handy a few times for me, so I thought it may be a good contribution. There would be a few better ways to create this function if date-part were a valid data type. It is a pretty straight-forward function. You may edit it if you […]
2006-10-05 (first published: 2006-03-29)
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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