With this function you can recover from your table all the password save encripted with another function posted before (check this site to find the script). The function recieves an encripted password and changes every character to return the right password.
2004-03-18
578 reads
If you need to save password for you application in tables, with this function you can save them encripted. And with another published function (check the page to find the script) you can desencript it. The function receives the password, modifies every character and returns the encripted password.
2004-03-18
631 reads
Like sp_who2 but this one let's you specify to filter by spid, login, hostname and dbname.Like any system procedure, can be executed from any database.
2004-03-18
9,656 reads
This script drop all indexes from table, including Primary Key contraint. First it del nonclustered indexes, then clustered and at last - drops PK contraint. This scirpt is useful, when you need drop all indexes, like when doing ETL process.
2004-03-17
551 reads
If you need to alter existing datatypes in the event of a SQL Server Datatype issue for capacity planning or conversion process this simple schema script may come in handy
2004-03-15
151 reads
This function calculates the time difference between 2 datetimes and displays the results in the following format:H,HHH,HHH:MM:SSThe return is a 15 character field that is left padded with spaces so that the field becomes right justified. This makes the colons line up for easy reading. Commas are automatically added as thousands separators as needed by […]
2004-03-14
457 reads
Saw Mike's routine for counting occurences of a string in a string and I thought I'd offer a simpler solution.Simply replace the occurence with null and use length differences as shown.NOTE: len may ignore trailing spaces, so this can be made more solid by adding some non printable char (less likely to interfere with operation) […]
2004-03-10
102 reads
This function will return the number of occurrences of one string within another string. I was looking for something like this recently, and the only thing I could find was needlessly complicated. Don't forget, when calling a scalar function, you must qualify with username like this:Select dbo.StringCount('Hi There','e') This function may be a little too […]
2004-03-09
380 reads
This script is used to disconnect all connections by a particular individual to a server. I use it when I have to disconnect somebody and they have too many processes to do it by hand. Normally, you can just connect the offending process, but if there are multiple processes that are causing a problem , […]
2004-03-08
2,894 reads
Found a version of this on the net. removed the loop and if/thens and made it a case statement 2004-03-11: Changed '@%@' to '%@%@%'
2004-03-08
445 reads
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There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers