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Global String Search & Replace In All DB Fields

Stored procedure to search every field in the database for a string literal.  Run the stored procedure in Query analyser, which will output sql statements to do the search.  The output of these searches will be the update sql, which again should be pasted into a query analyser window.  As the stored procedures do not […]

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2004-02-10

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SQL Server Log Reader

This script outputs the data in chronological order from the current SQL Server log.Output columns are: Log Entry Time, Event Source, Log Entry Text. This data matches with the data that can be seen under the SQL Server logs view in Enterprise Manager.The script is stand alone, but could easily be parameterised to work as […]

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2004-02-10

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XTAB - CROSSTAB UTILITY

sp_XTAB (prototype) produces pivoted (crosstab) views/output with a minimum of fuss.No messing with code, just tell XTAB what you want to pivot.Tested to 764 pivoted columns, XTAB can generate up to 63000 characters of dynamic sql. Example (deliberately over-simplified)----------------------updated 27 January 2004Use NorthwindEXEC sp_XTAB 'Northwind','xtEMPL_COUNTRY','Orders','EmployeeID','ShipCountry', '', 'OrderID','COUNT','NULL', '', 'SELECT xtEMPL_COUNTRY.* FROM xtEMPL_COUNTRY' -- Include optional […]

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2004-01-24

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Check if IP address is in private IP range

Function to allow for checking if an IP address is a private IP address.  Will convert the IP to a bigint equivalent if within the private range, otherwise it will return null if IP is a public address.Requires function IPStringToNumber which is included in the post

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2004-01-23

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Foreign Key DDL wizard

This script can be run when you want to do batch processing on a database, such as a dynamic truncate statement for all tables in your database.  This script will actually script all the Foreign Keys in your database, and then store them into a table called FOREIGN_KEY_TEMP.  It will then generate, and execute, all […]

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2004-01-22

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UDF For Extracting Actual Time From Two DateTime

Hi guys,       I have created a script of User-Defined-Function to extract the calulated time from two given datetime inputs. But you have to pass THREE parameters like :-a)Start Datetimeb)End Datetimec)To display the format either in HH:MM:SS or HH.MM , we    use 'T'(HH:MM:SS) OR 'N'(HH.MM).   Please feel FREE to E-mail me at […]

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2004-01-14

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Checking Identities

The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:

TravelLogID CityID  StartDate   EndDate
1           1       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
2           2       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
3           3       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
4           4       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
5           5       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
6           6       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
7           7       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
8           8       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
9           9       2025-01-11  2025-01-16
10          10      2025-01-11  2025-01-16
The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
    CityID,
    StartDate,
    EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above?

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