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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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Convert String to Title Case

This function will evaluate an input string and convert it to title-case format. It uses the delimchars parameter to determine what are the triggering characters to indicate capitalization of the subsequent character.I am using it in a DTS package to convert data in CAPS to Title/Proper case as I output the data to an Excel […]

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2003-05-15

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How to retrieve roles from a Database

If you have environment where you restrict access to database objects based on user roles and if you have a lot of databases on different servers in the same domain.  The following script can generate roles from a given database in a format that can be used to create roles on different servers where the […]

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2003-05-14

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Script to kill the top blocker and report what it was doing.

This script identifies the blocking locks at the top of the blocking chain and kills them. Specifically, it reports what the top blocking spids are doing, kills them, waits three seconds and then reports on current blocking status.  If you have a situation where single connections are causing a huge blocking chain and you want […]

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2003-05-12

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Escaping Strings

The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?

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