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INSERTS that will STAY after a ROLLBACK is issued

Sometimes it is usefull to log stuff in SQL server while stored procs are running. If a long stored proc runs you sometimes want to be able to log a message in a loggin file. But what if a rollback occurs.... The message is lost as well.Here is a method to set up a seperate […]

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2002-10-01

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sp_checksize

This stored procedure checks the sizes of one or all databases (including total data, total log, data used/free, data used/free percentage, log used/free, log used/free percentage). If a database name is provided, it will only check the given db. If no parameters provided, all dbs will be checked and the total size of all dbs […]

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2002-10-01

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Find the Nth Occurrence of a Character in a String

T-SQL's CHARINDEX() function is a useful for parsing out characters within a string.  However, it only returns the first occurrence of a character.  Oftentimes one needs to locate the Nth instance of a character or a space, which can be a complicated task in standard T-SQL.  This function I wrote, imaginatively named CHARINDEX2(), allows one […]

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2002-09-27

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GET COUNT(*) from 1 table

IN a scenario where the user would like to retrieve the Count(*) from a table without any condition, in that case this query will workselect count(*) from 'Suppose product is the table,if the product table is light then its ok but if it contains a huge data, then this query can be used.select max(rowcnt) from […]

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2002-09-26

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Grant permissions to a role

A very simple script that will first create a role (if it does not exist yet) and then grant full permissions on tables, views and stored procedures to the newly created role. Of course, you can add any filtering (i.e. grant permissions only for tables beginning with "abc") or grant partial permissions (SELECT or DELETE […]

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2002-09-26

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Random string and random number generators

The first part will create 2 stored procedures with self-explanatory names. The second is a standalone SQL that may be used in any stored procedure, script or DTS package.The generated string does not have any spaces and include only lower-case letters. To include anything else just change the boundaries for ASCII codes in the script.The […]

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2002-09-26

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Find circular references in single table

The objective is to find circular references in a single table related to itself. The script deals with a sample table Skills that have a SkilGUID (primary key) field and a SkilParentGUID field which is a foreign key to the record's parent from the same table. The number of levels in the hierarchy is not […]

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2002-09-24

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Checking the Error Log I

On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?

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