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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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Quick and Dirty Server/Instance information

I do a lot of SQL Server Desktop Edition instance testing and I cobbled together this script from BOL and other scripts I've seen posted.  It is intended to show version, service pack level, machine and instance name and the security type among other information.  Hopefully someone else may find it of use. 

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2003-02-27

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Generate Insert/Update/Delete Sprocs for a table

A week ago I posted this script. It was a much simpeler version without error checking. Now all the sprocs return the same errors.    0 THERE WERE NO ERRORS  -99 UNEXPECTED NR OF RECORDS AFFECTED  0 THE SQL ERROR NUMBER Also with the insert statement the @ID is set. So you can retrieve the […]

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2003-02-25

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A Simple way to find the line of script.

You can use this procedure to find any word or sentance, which u used in procedures, views, triggers and function. This procedure is basically a modified form of system procedure "sp_helptext". Now its upto you to use that and modified that. To execute the procedure, first create it in your Database and then execute it […]

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2003-02-24

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Func. generates insert and select for large table

Generates an insert statement including column list.  Useful for identity table data copying.  Just modify the code generated to select and insert the needed fields.  Saves time on large table inserts (also generates a select statement.  Use part or all of the SQL generated.  Saves development time when dealing with large tables.

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2003-02-21

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Finding Trailing Spaces

I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:

CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName
1          Steve        Steve               
2          Andy         Andy               
3          Brian        Brian               
4          Allan        Allan               
5          Devin        Devin               
6          Steve        Steve               
7          Sally        Sally
I want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT 
       CustomerID,
       CustomerName,
       PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName);

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