Examining the output of DBCC SQLPERF(UMSSTATS) helps in determining a CPU bottleneck. The output of the command is not handy for further investigation (from a table).This procedure performs a transformation of the results, so it is easy to query and store in a database.
2005-11-04 (first published: 2005-09-20)
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Our business accounting software is Microsoft Business Solutions Solomon IV.which is now being called Dynamics Solomon. You will see specific refernces to this software in this code. I originally developed this to gain faster view of issues we were having with Solomon. This procedure analyzes system tables and looks for blocks. This isfaster than using […]
2005-11-03 (first published: 2005-09-20)
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SUMMARY:This UDF script takes a text value(nvarchar) and returns a decimal(18,6) number. If the text value can't be interpreted as numeric, the UDF returns NULL.-----------------------------------------------USAGE: SET @MyDecimal = dbo.TextToDecimal('-$123,456.73')@MyDecimal will now be -123456.730000SET @MyDecimal = dbo.TextToDecimal('-$123,4560.73') --bad number format@MyDecimal will now be NULL------------------------------------------------------DESCRIPTION:The ISNUMERIC function incorrectly returns 1 (True) for many non-numeric text values. Even […]
2005-11-02 (first published: 2005-09-20)
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A user defined function that converts an integer value to an IP address in dot notation format. This is performed by promoting a 32 bit signed integer value to a signed 64 bit bigint and converted to a binary representation of the integer. The purpose of this script is to allow the storage of an […]
2005-11-01 (first published: 2005-09-21)
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Reviewers: Please disapprove this change, thanks Sorry people, I had deleted this script due to red-gate copyright issue, prior to having the copyright confusion cleared up. I will repost if reqd.
2005-10-31 (first published: 2005-09-21)
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I saw a posting recently of a DBA not being able to truncate a transaction log. I rememberred this script that I had, (downloaded from Microsoft Support many moons ago), which did the job for me. It basically filled the log with data, then truncated and shrank the log. All important points throughout the script […]
2005-10-28 (first published: 2005-09-26)
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Consider an employee table containing name and age of the employees. Write a script to retrieve the row which contain the details of the employee whose age is 50 and also retrieve the immediate next and previous rows
2005-10-27 (first published: 2005-09-28)
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This script modifies another excellent script written by SHAS3. The original script examines tables for changes and sends an email. This modification examines all stored procedures, tables, indexes, etc. in ALL databases or just the CURRENT database. If changes are detected, the script has the option to either email or log to a table that […]
2005-10-26 (first published: 2005-09-28)
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This script outputs the TSQL code to do perform an 'Upsert'.It depends on both the source & target tables having the same structure and rows being uniquely identified with a single field.Three variables need to be updated prior to execution of this script:@SourceTable: Table containing the data to be upserted@TargetTable = Table to be upserted […]
2005-10-25 (first published: 2005-09-30)
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When you tell Enterprise Manager to "Create one file per object" when scripting objects from the database it gives those scripts a PRC extension.Unfortunately SQL Query Analyser defaults to a .SQL extension.The following DOS command renames all .PRC files to .SQL
2005-10-24 (first published: 2005-09-30)
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By Steve Jones
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers