2005-02-01 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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Display current date minus the time
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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Show_Locks
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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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 […]
2005-01-27 (first published: 2005-01-07)
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Backup DTS Package while editing in Designer
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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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 […]
2005-01-25 (first published: 2005-01-10)
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Generate Random Alphanumeric String
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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create t-sql scripts for every jobs in Instance.
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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t-sql function to parse string data
The below function can be used to parse or split out data from a delimited string. The function takes in 3 parameters. The text you want to parse, the 1 character delimiter, and the total count of objects in the text.Text for function is set at size of varchar(2000), feel free to make bigger if […]
2005-01-19 (first published: 2005-01-13)
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Rename DTS Tasks / Steps for Logging
ActiveX Script that will rename all DTS Package Tasks and Steps to include the Task Description. For generating DTS Logs with meaningful names.
2005-01-17 (first published: 2005-01-04)
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RegEx Functions II
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') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers