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Get Data/Log File Names, Sizes, Percent Utilization--ALL DBs

This Stored Procedure Will Get: - The Data and Log File Names - The Data and Log File Sizes (MB) - The Data and Log Percent Utilization (%) for ALL Databases on a SQL Instance. Numbers Should (More Or Less) Reflect What You See on The SQL Enterprise Manager Taskpad. LIMITATIONS: For Databases With Multiple […]

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2005-02-14 (first published: )

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usp_import_from_mysql

Imports data from MySQL Server; works best with mysql driver 3.51.06! You'll have to create a dsn and then a linked server to that dsn. The script checks if the table exists in the mysql catalog (defined in the dsn properties). Too bad it needs administrative privileges to run (dbcc statement) - my advice: don't […]

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2005-02-11 (first published: )

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Revise t-sql function to parse string data

Kmlakov's script, t-sql function to parse string data, posted on 1/19/2005, required the passing in text ends with the delimiter. But it is usually not the case. I rewrote the script (added one IF statement). The new script can treat the text with or without ending delimiter. The third parameter will be the number of […]

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2005-02-07 (first published: )

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Reporting Services Extras Bug - Date Sort Problem

SQL Server's Reporting Services comes with some pre-built reports to be able to monitor who is doing what with your Reporting Services Server. You can find these reports in the \Extras\Execution Log Sample Reports folder on the product CD-ROM (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsadmin/htm/arp_rslogfiles_v1_88gy.asp). One of the reports is titled "Todays Reports" (Todays Reports.rdl/pToday Dataset). It should show the […]

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2005-01-27 (first published: )

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Use of regular expressions in TSQL -- version 2

This script creates 2 new system functions ****************************************** NEW: 1. functions will be case sensitive if database is 2. Replace all or only first occurence ****************************************** fn__regexp_test(@String,@Pattern) returns int execute the method test(@String) on the regular expressions @Pattern returns : 0 : no match 1 : match null : one of the parameters was null […]

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2005-01-26 (first published: )

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Add Wildcards to Advanced Search Stored Procedure

I have found that I can add wildcard support to the Advanced Search Stored Procedure submitted by jgroseth (Posted: 07/02/2004) here:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/1201.aspby simply modifying "charindex( c.string," to "patindex('%' + c.string + '%'"I did this to take varying whitespace into account since SQL server does not care about whitespace, for example "INSERT INTO DATABASE_MYTABLE" could have any […]

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2005-01-25 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

Checking Identities

The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:

TravelLogID CityID  StartDate   EndDate
1           1       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
2           2       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
3           3       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
4           4       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
5           5       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
6           6       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
7           7       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
8           8       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
9           9       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
10          10      2025-01-11  2025-01-16
The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
    CityID,
    StartDate,
    EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above?

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