Finding lowercase value in a table
This script is userful in CaseSensitive environment. This will detect a values from a table column which are lower case.
2005-05-26 (first published: 2005-05-09)
106 reads
Scripts
Generating WITH MOVE Statements
Generating WITH MOVE Statements for restoring backups on a different servers which has different disk layout.
2005-05-25 (first published: 2005-05-09)
240 reads
Backup DB and Email
I have the need to backup multiple MS SQL databases and email to a support email address.I have added on an original script to produce a fairly robust db back and email script.You can either email the db or just a notification of backup.Script will also maintain db's for a set length of time before […]
2005-05-20 (first published: 2005-01-26)
357 reads
Creating a DTS package with a Perl Script
This script uses the DTS object model to create a simple package, execute the package, and properly check for any errors.
2005-05-19 (first published: 2005-04-01)
297 reads
HexToSmallInt
Hans asked if it could be faster. This is about 10% faster; not much. His is admittedly more readable, and mine will act very strangely with invalid hex digits.How does it work? I'm converting the string '1234' to the value 0x31323334 (for example), then subtracting '0000' so that it is 0-based in each byte (CONVERT(INT,0x30303030) […]
2005-05-16 (first published: 2005-05-04)
180 reads
SQL Blocking and Blocked Proc + Notifi - Part2
Based on the script by Paul Delmarche ( http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1482.asp ).Updated to now include the spid, username, blocked and blocking SQL statements in the email (still logged to table).Schedule the procedure to run at defined intervals (I use 2 minutes)
2005-05-12 (first published: 2005-05-02)
1,461 reads
Table Sizes in database
This script uses the same information sp_spaceused does. It just formats it in a different way.
2005-05-10 (first published: 2005-04-26)
230 reads
Restore Multiple Backup Logs
Use This Script to restore Multiple Log backups from a Log Device file. The script will restore all the logs on the device and will leave the databse ready to use after finish. Before running this script you must verify if the database is in No recovery mode or read only state
2005-05-09 (first published: 2005-04-25)
452 reads
Grant EXECUTE permission to users
This procedure will assist in granting execute rights to a database user to all the stored procedures in a database The parameters to this procedure are the databasename and the username to whom EXECUTE rights need to be given to The assumption here is that the user already has access rights to the database mentioned […]
2005-05-05 (first published: 2005-04-19)
263 reads
HexToINT
An optimized function for converting a HEX string into a INT. Built for being faster then other HexToDec converters.Slightly slower then HexToSMALLINT.If there is any faster function to do this conversion, I am intrested of using it instead.
2005-05-04 (first published: 2005-04-19)
323 reads
Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
Forums
DML Trigger Types
Comments posted to this topic are about the item DML Trigger Types
PostgreSQL in action with Opensearch
Comments posted to this topic are about the item PostgreSQL in action with Opensearch
Choose the Second One
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Choose the Second One
Question of the Day
DML Trigger Types
How many types of DML triggers are there?
See possible answers