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From a Delimited String, fetching the nth Value

This User defined Function will provide you the facility of fetching the nth Value from a Delimited string. The Parameter for the function which you have to pass is, the Delimited String, the Delimiter of the string, nth Position of the string. In this function , you can dynamically change the Delimiter as well as […]

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2004-10-15 (first published: )

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Automatically Sets Default on Columns

If you set up a default on a column AFTER data has been entered, then this procedure will apply    the default to all NULL values within that column. Limitations:     It only works with numeric values right now.You will also need the INSTR function, which you can also get from this site.This is my first […]

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2004-10-13 (first published: )

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check rerun status of failed/cancelled jobs

There are times when you have mulitple job failures and need to find out in a quick way which jobs/steps failed and what their rerun statuses are.  This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.

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2004-10-12 (first published: )

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Utility proc for updating (sub) sequence columns

This is a utility proc that I use a lot for datawarehouse transformation/load processing. This is a generic proc for resequencing an integer column in sorted order within a given key combination.Note that 'key' is used here in a general context and not specific, that is there doesn't have to be any keys or indexes […]

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2004-10-12

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Generating random numbers in a range, sql2k

This script will generated random numbers within a choosen Upper and LowerBound. I'v created a random number (int's) generator since i couldnt find a script which exactly did what I was searching for. The RAND function seems to do repetive patterns, so i created a new function based on the NEWID function.After running the two […]

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2004-10-08 (first published: )

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Delete All

Here is a simpler version of the Delete All Script that was posted on 2004-10-07.Be careful it does what it is supposed to do delete all tables from the current database

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2004-10-07

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Dynamic Data Paging

I've search high and low on the Internet for good examples of Paging Data in an application. However, none of the Examples were clean enough, or worked for all situations. For example, there are no examples of Data Paging for Tables with Composite Keys.This Script is able to page Data on any Table, using any […]

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2004-10-07

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Creating JSON I

On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:

SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver')
GO

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