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Find Duplicate Indexes - Episode 1 (The Early SQL Versions)

The excellent script contributed by G.R. Preethiviraj Kulasingham (Preethi) Sri Lanka (contributed 2/20/03, modified 5/22/03) identifies duplicate indexes for the database on which the script is run.  It requires User Defined Functions, a feature restricted to SQL Server 2000.This version achieves similar results without using UDFs or creating any other permanent objects. It therefore works […]

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2003-05-28

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Script to determine if all chars are same in field

This script is actually based on a script by epol29.  That was titled 'Script to count the number of Yes/No in the string', which I found to be an awsome script.Anyway, this script uses the same logic to deterimine if all of the characters in a field are the same.  For example, 1111111, aaaaaaaa, 4444, […]

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2003-05-19

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Grant rights easely to a role /user

This simple script shows how to easely grant rights to user objects (tables,stored procedure,user-defined functions) to a role (public in example), in SQL Server 2000.The script can be used to grant rights to a specific NT /sql login account by replacing [public] with the desired name.

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2003-05-16

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ORDER BY alias

There is a table tmp_tab:

CREATE TABLE tmp_tab (
id int,
val int
);
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES
(1, 1),
(2, NULL),
(3, 3),
(4, 4),
(5, 5);
You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
    ISNULL(val, id) + 1
Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct)

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