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Search for a value in a numeric variable list

When you have a variable that hold a comma separated numbers like '1,2,3' and you have a table with a column that has the value that should match a number in that list, you can use this script to avoid building a string and then executing it.You have to convert the columnID to varchar, the […]

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2002-05-20

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SQL Mail Stop and Start

Since SQL Mail periodically stops working and the simplefix is to stop and start it, this script does just that.It can be scheduled to run as a task as often as desiredusing an ISQL command (e.g. isql -U sa -P  -i "e:\dba\mailstopstart.sql" -o "e:\dba\mailstopstart.out")or as a stored procedure.  It has been tested on SQL 6.5 […]

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2002-05-16

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Get total file size of backup for last full backup

The information for backup size is stored in the backup_size column of the backupset table in the msdb database as the total bytes for that backup. This script allow you to look at the total back to tape or file so you can plan space needs for those devices. This is a simple piece of […]

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2002-05-14

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Procedure for Random Numbers

Here is handy procedure to generate random number.I find it useful when I generate large amount of test data in a database.For example if you need to create a Customer Data and what they have purchased in the last month to run perfrmance tests on large amount of data an set up necessary indexes.You can […]

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2002-05-13

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Parse a delimited string, return n-th value

This UDF will parse a string delimited by the character you specify and return the value in the n-th position you requested.Example:select dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 1) --> 'this'select dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 2) --> 'string'select dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 3) --> NULLselect dbo.fn_parse('this  string', ' ', 2) --> ''

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2002-05-10

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