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OccursAny

Returns the number of times any word in comma delimeted character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a comma delimeted character expression that OccursAny( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OccursAny( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OccursAny( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.Example:OccursAny('the,dog','The quick brown fox […]

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2003-12-03

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Set logging properties for group of DTS packages

This script will set the Logging properties for a group of DTS packages. To run this script stand-alone, you'll need to set 6 variables. sSvr, sDb, sUid, sPwd, iSec and sPkgMatch. If you use this script in a DTS package, you can assign the values from Global Variables. The sPkgMatch variable is used as a […]

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2003-12-01

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SQL Server Job Status Report

This script generates an HTML report on the status of all jobs on a specific SQL Server instance. The report consists of several sections: a summary report of jobs that have passed, failed, been cancelled, or whose status is unknown; a detailed report of the status of each job.The script is designed to be included […]

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2003-12-01

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Monitor space used for disks, DBs, tables and filegroups

I pieced this script together from solutions I found on this and from Brian Knight's excellent book. It creates 3 tables: - tblDriveLogs. Collects free drivespace info for each drive for each time the script is run. - tblIndexLogs. Collects info on spaceused for each index and table. Please note that when only af single […]

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2003-11-26

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BIT_COUNT() V

What does this return on SQL Server 2025?

select bit_count(null)

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