SP_SQLSMTPMail is an OLE automation implementation of the CDOSYS dll for Windows 2000 which utilizes a network SMTP server rather than an Exchange server/Outlook client. The stored procedure functions similar to xp_sendmail including the ability to run a query and attach the results. No MAPI profile is required. It is also a working, detailed example […]
2005-10-12 (first published: 2002-10-08)
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This scripts adds the users to the specified Windows NT Group.This will be helpful if we want to give the access to group of users to a sql server, which is runing with Windows Authentication. Create a NT group and give the access on SQL and run this script it adds the user into the […]
2005-10-10 (first published: 2005-09-15)
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I took the script from the email you sent me and tested on my machine but i had to correct a few thing because our system is case sensitive. Thanks for the anonymous that wrote that script..... 😉 "This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all […]
2005-10-07 (first published: 2005-09-16)
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A table Users contains a Create date column.A table AccessLog contains StartTime column.Both are date time fields.Users table contains one row per user and AccesLog contains as many rows as the number oftimes the user Logged into the system.The requirement is:to produce a single table that has two different COUNTs... one column will have the […]
2005-10-06 (first published: 2005-09-16)
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This stored procedure was written to complement the automated profiler trace create procedure (should be here somewhere - check the scripts).Bascially, given the database (sample script to create the database included, but you may want to personalize it), this stored procedure will import the tracefile content into the table, which is indexed on expected search […]
2005-10-03 (first published: 2005-03-04)
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2005-09-28 (first published: 2004-09-23)
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This UDF takes a delimited string and parses it into "words" which are returned as rows in a table. The table returned indicates the position of each element in the source string, and converts values to integer and numeric formats if possible.The script contains examples on how to use the function.the original version was written […]
2005-09-26 (first published: 2004-08-10)
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This function will increment the given alpha numeric string in sequential order up to 100 characters. (The length can be easily modified)
2005-09-22 (first published: 2005-02-14)
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Here's a quick and dirty function for parsing strings based on a delimiter (As in a varchar field with comma delimited text). I'm hoping for feedback on a more efficient means of doing this.Also,4 functions for comparing two delimited lists of strings. Many may ask why these are needed, but that's a very long explanation […]
2005-09-21 (first published: 2004-08-25)
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This is a function that takes a start date and end date as parameters and returns the number of weekdays (Monday to Friday) in between. This function assumes that Sunday is set as the first day of the week. Adapted from a vb function that I wrote to calculate standard salary costs for billing purposes. […]
2005-09-19 (first published: 2004-10-16)
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