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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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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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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.

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2005-01-24 (first published: )

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RegEx Functions IV

I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:

EmailAddressID EmailAddress
7              dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
8              Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
If I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10
 *
 FROM person.EmailAddress
 WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i')
 AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)

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