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Jscript to obscure emails from robots in HTML

This script will obscure email addresses from robots even ones that ignore the tags to not snoop. Usually robots that ignore the tags, and the robots.txt file are used by spammers. They pull down the SOURCE of your page and scrape the email addresses from them. This script breaks the mail href into its base […]

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2003-03-23

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Convert Interger to Binary String for Bit Masks

The three functions here can be used to store Bit Masks as Integers.These are functions to convert an integer into a binary string. This can be useful if you store Bit Masks in your database as integers.For example .. '00000000000011111001001001110011' to 1020531Each Bit could represent an ON or OFF value. One integer columncould be equivalent […]

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2003-03-21

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Statistic of SQL-Server - Daily Version

A Procedure gather Server Statistic per day or per run this Procedure.Output: Table TBL_SERVERSTATISTICS. You can use the results to analyze SQL-Server performance problems. You can analyze what changed after install new hardware or software, add or remove Application/DB/File/Index/Table etc.Recommendations: Run a Procedure once every day.Warning: If sql-server restarted after last run a Procedurecurrent running […]

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2003-03-13

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Weekly Reports Made Easy

Each week you are required to run various reports based on table entries made during the week preceding latest Sunday. Use this SQL7/2000 procedure (can be a UDF in SQL2K) to retrieve the latest midnight of a specified day of the week as illustrated below: Declare @StartDate datetime, @EndDate datetime Exec DBAservice.dbo.uspGetLatestWkDayMidnight @pDate = '1998-05-06', […]

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2003-03-13

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Load Backup History from Backup File

This script creates a stored proc to verify all backups in a media set and load their history into MSDB.  I use this frequently when I get backup files from clients and want to use Enterprise Manager's intelligent restore selection to quickly get the database restored on a test machine. 

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2003-03-11

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Script to validate user input for password change

For SQL Server in Mixed Authentication mode thisstored 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 and at least one of the characters must be in upper case.

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2003-03-11

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Bitmap an Integer Value

Do you hate using bitwise operands?  I do, a lot.  I wrote the following function to try to minimize the need for using them.  When testing 'status' variables in the 'sysobjects' table, for example, I decided there just had to be an easier way to see if bit 31 is set than asking if STATUS […]

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2003-03-07

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Add files to filegroups and log for many dbs

Purpose: This SP is used to add a logfile and a datafile to each file group in a database or all databases. This is handy when you have a lot of databases and you want to add a new big SAN-disk and stop db expansion on the old disks.Consider: Avoid running any large updates when […]

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2003-03-06

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Intervention system for runaway jobs

Some of my developers had created jobs that executed VB applications that never ended. Aparently they could not figure out when, why and what was going wrong. They could not repro the situation.Now I've created this litle system so the users can assign max elaps times for their jobs. These jobs will then be intercepted […]

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2003-03-04

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Changing the Recovery Time

I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?

ALTER DATABASE Finance 
 SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;

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