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 […]
2005-02-11 (first published: 2005-01-17)
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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 […]
2005-02-07 (first published: 2005-01-19)
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2005-02-01 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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This script will get you the current date minus the time. It will display all zeros instead.DATETIME is stored as a number in SQL and less internal conversions are will be used then other methods. Microsoft generally uses this method.
2005-01-31 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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Shows database, table names which are locked, the user who locks them, the command which is executed
2005-01-28 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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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 […]
2005-01-27 (first published: 2005-01-07)
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This is a very cool time saving ActiveX Script, run manually from within DTS Designer, that generates date and sequence named backups of the package into the specified development and backup folders. Don't ever lose work again.
2005-01-26 (first published: 2005-01-08)
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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 […]
2005-01-25 (first published: 2005-01-10)
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Here's a short script to generate a random alphanumeric string based on newid(). The procedure takes in length (@len) which determines the key length. Length must be between 8 and 32. Result is returned in an output parameter. A test script is supplied.
2005-01-24 (first published: 2005-01-10)
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Desc : This SQL statement will provide script for backup all your jobs.Remark : Grow-up 'maximum characters per column' (for 8192) and disable 'print column headers' in 'tools' / 'options'
2005-01-21 (first published: 2005-01-11)
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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