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Format numeric values to language specific format

SQL Server returns numeric values always in a internal format. The conversion of numeric values into a language specific format is usually part of the client. With this User Defined Function, you can do thison your backend. The function expects 3 parameters: The numeric value, the requested language and the number of decimals (will be […]

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2004-07-13 (first published: )

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List User Permissions

Do you ever need to look for a given user's permissions for security reasons or move the permissions for that user from test environment to production? This is a script, which will generate print statements, which can be use to view/grant, the permissions of all dbo objects, which the given user has, which is not […]

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2004-07-08 (first published: )

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Generate Random Alphanumeric Strings

This script will generate and populate a table variable with a stipulated number of unique 8 randomly generated character alphanumeric values. This can be useful in situations where one has to allocate passwords or unique id to users. It accepts one input parameter "@HowMany int" representing the number of these alphanumeric values to generate; default=500.Usage: […]

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2004-07-06 (first published: )

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Restore Backup and all TRANLOGS in a specific DIR

Many DBA's have a Maintenance plan running that creates a backup every night and a transaction log backup every hour.Restoring them to another server (for whatever reason) can be a tedious job. That is why I wrote this T-SQL script.It will read the contents of a backup directory created by the maintenance plan and create […]

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2004-06-25

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Find Instances of a Column Name

This script will allow you to find all instances of a column name, or partial column name, in all user tables in the database in which it is run.  This is sometimes helpful during upgrades, etc.  There is no error checking in this script.  You can modify it to add, if needed.Run this by simply […]

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2004-06-21

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