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Date Only

This is a follow-on to info's script to strip the time portion of a datetime or smalldatetime, leaving only the date.  I found info's script interesting!  When I had to do this I converted the date to varchar and back again instead of to float.  Seems to work fine for me.

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2003-04-03

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Get the Table Structure using a simple query

This query will solve problems related to Table structure. Using this query you can have the complete table structure for all the user tables with Table Name, Column Name, Data Type, and Null attributes of a column.You can run this script in Query Analyzer or make use of it in your front-end to give table […]

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2003-04-02

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Restore last backup to a different server/database

Finds the last available backup for a specified database (local or remote server), then restores the backup onto an existing database on the local server.The script will kill all non-system processes in the destination database to allow the script to be scheduled at night regardless is anyone is still connected.The logical and physical names are […]

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2003-03-31

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Date without Time (corrected)

Some time you need to know only Date without Time.This is simple function that allows you truncate datetime field to date only.This function can help you to construct dynamic T-SQL for select date period. P.S. Thanks for ispaleny! Conversion only for real not enough! It is necessary convert to real that correct errors near the […]

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2003-03-28

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Enhanced sp_password

This is a sp_password enhanced by Dmitri Bobkov (see http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/718.asp) and re-enhanced with a small changes from SQL2kSP3.For SQL Server in Mixed Authentication mode this stored procedure helps to validate users password. Currently this procedure checks for the next requrements: password must have length at least 8 characters plus among them at least one digit […]

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2003-03-27

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BIT_COUNT() III

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:

select bit_count(-1)
What is returned?

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