IP addresses are represented as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx is an integer between 0 and 255. Each three-digit integer is called an octet, and all IP addresses comprise four octets.Help-desk applications and administrative tools often store the IP addresses for a company's PCs in a database. An IP address can be represented either as a single […]
2004-02-25
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I have been tasked with a daunting job of scripting I/U/D triggers for our new database. The job of the triggers is to Audit the activity on the tables. What column was changed to what value on what table and by whom. With over 60 tables, this is a daunting task. So off I went […]
2004-02-24
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I want to thank James Travis for his original and excellent work and to Razvan Socol for alerting about a similar problem that led me to improve James' code. The problem is that when searching for a word that is split between two 8kb blocks, James' code would ignore it. The solution is to look […]
2004-02-21
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This script uses the extended stored procedure xp_instance_regread to read a value from the registry
2004-02-20
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Indexes and table Statistics play a big role in an OLTP database for better query performance. Maintaining statistics on a weekly basis is important but a heavily updated database tables need more emphasis on Statistics and frequent updates. Instead of trying to issue “sp_updatestats” for the entire database, you can choose tables which are heavily […]
2004-02-17
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This stored procedure is created from the need to copy rows from a table with new value. The script itself will create stored procedure proc_copyrows.The parameters are@TableName: the table name@FilterField: filter field, default is null, means no filter@SourceValue: the value of filter field from source data to be copied@DestinationValue: the new value of filter field@SourceDB: […]
2004-02-13
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Generate an html-excel file with any table. Does not need Excel to generate , because does not use Excel automation
2004-02-12
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Search all text fields in a database for a literal string.Outputs SQL statements to query analyser window, which can then be run in a new window.
2004-02-10
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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 […]
2004-02-10
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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 […]
2004-02-10
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I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Redgate had some Claude training recently, which I went through as my knowledge has...
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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