A simple UDF for padding out numbers with a specific character (eg: pad 3 to show as 003).Usefull when you can only sort as a text item or for formatting purposes.Script is similar to the SPACE() function but allow the padding character to be defined.Usage:dbo.padNumber('string to pad', padsize, padchar)eg:SELECT dbo.padNumber('53', 4, '0') as testNumReturns:testNum-------0053
2003-07-25
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Enter the starting zip code and the number of miles for a radius search and the SP will return all the zip codes within the number of miles specified.The data file can be found at http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.txtThe record layout van be found at http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zip90r.txt
2003-07-24
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This works, however code is creating a live temp_1 table in the database instead of using a #temp_1 temporary table because is just would not work.The next idea I had was to use a unique table name per connection for temp_1, but I would really rather use temporary tables.I am hoping some SQL guru's can […]
2003-07-22
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Oftentimes there is a need to retrieve different types of the same object (e.g. contacts). For example, in a Contacts database, you might have a Contact table containing many different types of contacts (employees, customers, suppliers, etc). Typically, a user might need to see a report of all different types of contacts for an order […]
2003-07-18
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I manage quite a few hundred databases across the company. Time to time I get a question if I can check wheather a database is beeing used or not, and if it is, by whom?There are probably a 1000 ways to do this, but I've created a script for creating a scheduled job that runs […]
2003-07-15
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An easy way to organize the data by groups of sequential numbers. This is very helpful for splitting up a large file into numerous smaller files. You can then create the smaller files by filtering for the row number per file.
2003-07-09
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Use this script to make HTTP posts or requests from withing SQL. It uses the XML HTTP COM object.
2003-07-08
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The following stript combines two previous articals. sp_MStablespace was being demonstrated with a cursor. To reduce the code the sp_MSforeachtable could be used.
2003-07-08
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I was asked by a customer to create a scheduled weekly report detailing work that had been completed in the previous week (Monday to Friday) I figured they might lose the report or something might happen to stop the scheduler from running it, and I didn't want to have to modify my script to work […]
2003-07-07
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2003-07-02
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By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
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On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers