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Strip Non-numeric characters from string function

Sometimes it's necessary to strip non-numeric characters from the string, so you can convert to integer without error. Often it happens when you want to use stored procedure, especially system procedures. The output there can be already with some characters (MB, KB and such), but you want this result to be used for your own […]

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2003-11-10

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Database File(s) Growth Notification

This stored proc notify the user(s) if the data/log file grew. When you execute it for the first time it will get the data/log files sizes and inserts in a table. Next time when you run the script if will compare the current size with the previous files size. This script must need sqlmail configured […]

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2003-11-07

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ClearData

We can use this sp to clear data in tables.  I mainly created this sp for two reason. 1.This is useful to commence the testing from scratch.  2.Whenever we ask the database backup from our customer.  They hesitant to give the production database because of confidential.  I have used Delete and Truncate statement to clear […]

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2003-11-06

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Execute VBScript commands or .vbs files via T-SQL.

sp_ExecVBScript allows you to execute either a .vbs file or an ad-hoc VBScript command within a T-SQL batch.  Note that the command (whether it be ad-hoc or contained in the .vbs file) cannot have any code that requires user input (such as Input Boxes or Message Boxes).

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2003-11-05

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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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