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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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2004-09-21 (first published: )

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Process XML against XSL template and save output

Given SQL text (@sql_txt) that will return XML data, run that XML data against an XSL template (@xsl_file_nm), and save the output to the specified outputfile (@out_file_nm). If @xsl_file_nm is not specified, then output is just saved as XML.This script is very usefull, but not secure. One could easily overload any of the script input […]

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2004-09-17

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BulkExport - export data from TSQL

sp_BulkExport:Export Data from TSQL without using xp_cmdshell - uses SQLDMO and sp_OA*.  Supports a variety of formats and options.  In my testing on a 22 million-row table it is NOT as fast as BCP.  This is the first rev of the proc and it has not been thoroughly tested.

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2004-09-16 (first published: )

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To estimate the size or the future size of a DB

The level of index fragmentation is not taken into consideration. Actual level of fragmentation is assume to be proportionnal over time.Only one object can be used as the witness to drive the database size.A normally distributed database is needed for this tool to report accurate estimates. ** Example : dbo.sp__EstimateSize @UpdateUsage = true ,@ObjGuidance = […]

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2004-09-16

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Database Data Dictionary Utilities

This is a modification of Database Data Dictionary by rsellers at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/895.asp.Two procedures to help maintain field definitionsvp_DatabaseDictionary lists the columns grouped by ColumnName, Type, and Length.DatabaseSchemaByColumn is a variation of rsellers procedure in that it takes a column name as an input.Usage:  execute vp_DatabaseDictionary you may find that you have several fields of the […]

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2004-09-15 (first published: )

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Alphanumeric and Special Character Validation

Alphanumeric and Special Character Validation=========================================/*Function name: fn_ValidateStringDescription : This function is used to validate whether the given string contains Alphanumeric character and some special character’s ‘@’ ,’(‘, ‘ )’, ‘_’, ‘-‘Parameters: 1) @InputString varchar(25) Accepts the string, which we need to validate 2) @Type int = 0 validate the string for only alphanumeric characters i.e […]

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2004-09-14

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The Range of Customers

I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):

orderid orderdate               customerid complete
3       2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002          1
21      2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003          1
15      2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004   1
13      2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006          1
11      2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007          1
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
 from dbo.OrderHeader
 where customerid between 3 and '6'

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