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
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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
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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
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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
430 reads
This function returns the difference between dates in the H:MM:SS format.
2004-03-05
276 reads
This sp will return the column names for a table(s) and form a "Select Statement" for a table(s). We can pass a table name as a parameter to display a "Select Statement" for that table.
2004-03-04
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2004-03-04
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This is an update to sp_helpindex, it allows you to pass the table name and whether you want to retrieve clustered, nonclustered or primary key indexes for a table. Using the sp_msforeach table will allow you to do this for all tables in a database. Inserting the data into a table will allow you to […]
2004-03-04
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This script creates a stored procedure that archives the sql server error log. It uses the startup parameters stored in the registry to locate the errorlog.1 file and then copies the errorlog.1 file to errorlog.log.
2004-03-02
350 reads
This Script takes any table wich contains rows with names and valus and converts it into a result set with the names as collumn names and the values as values.Just set @TableName,@vcName,@vcValue to the desired values.
2004-03-02
204 reads
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If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers