This script allows for testing if rows will cause a primary key violations prior to inserting the data. Offending rows are stored in a table so they can be used in subsequent queries or used to debug bad data issues. This updated version adds a timestamp to the duplicates table so that identifying when the […]
2003-10-28
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Stored procedure that return range of data from any table without using temp table or cursors. You don't even need to use the IDENTITY field in your target table. Check out and comments are welcomed
2003-10-27
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Provides a method to regularly recycle the sql server error logs based on a given file size. If the current log file is larger than that size, then the current log is closed and a new log created.This proc takes one parameter, @MaxFileSize, which is the target file size. This parameter defaults to 10 MB. […]
2003-10-27
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It creates documentation for all user tables in a specific database. A server name/ database name was added on the top of the HTML file also a column datatype field was added to the HTML file. Now the @strHTML can have 8000 chars, before only 4000 - still for tables with a lot of columns […]
2003-10-27
669 reads
Sound like old hat ... but this procedure accepts the two database names as input parameters; therefore, it must dynamically generate the SQL and use Exec(@command) to execute it. It also reports on tables that exist in one database but not the other ... Finally, it uses count(*) to provide more accuracy than using sysindex […]
2003-10-24
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This function lists the column name and column id for primary key columns for a given table.
2003-10-24
1,554 reads
This script converts string-based IP addresses to their numeric equivalents so that it is easy to do arithmatic on them such as find an IP address that is within a range.NOTE: This function calls the split function which is included in the post.
2003-10-20
1,585 reads
Are you managing big databases with a lot of tables like SAP as I'm?Do you use sp_spaceused, as I'm?Do you want to know your n biggest tables as I'm?Then don't search any longer.I'm using this script every day for may maintenance jobs.I generates, like sp_spaceused, out of sysindexes the n biggest tables without any cursor, […]
2003-10-20
312 reads
I routinely need to retrieve and package query result sets in an XML package. The built in functions supported by SQL Server 2000 are effective, but are often more of a pain than a help. This routine can be used in a simple select statement to XML encode the contents of a column during the […]
2003-10-14
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2003-10-10
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I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers