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Copying Data from one Database to Another

This script will be helpful to only those people who arehaving identical database with different names.This script can be used to copy single or multiple tables from one database to anotherThe parameters @tname , source database and target database are important for the script to work. In the script below I have considered two databases […]

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2002-04-16

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Get users permissions with mapping thru role.

This procedure is similar to sp_helpprotect except to extends a bit on the concept with roles involved. If for instance a user has right on a TableX but they are not mapped directly to the user but instead to a role then sp_helpprotect does not tell you this. This will tell you how the user […]

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2002-04-16

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List of triggers in a database

Give the following information, about triggers in the database.Parent_Name      Parent_Type Name                         Type               Insert Update Delete IsFirstInsertTrigger IsFirstUpdateTrigger IsFirstDeleteTrigger IsLastInsertTrigger IsLastUpdateTrigger IsLastDeleteTrigger

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2002-04-16

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Preventing accidental overwrites with update SPs

Say you wanted to create an SP for updating records in a database.  How would you do this in such a way as to allow your users to edit only a subset of fields in the record, without overwriting the other fields, and without requiring verbose IF blocks and CASE statements in your code?Simple.  Use […]

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2002-04-16

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Converting money to the word value.

With this script you can supply an money value such as $12525.83 and it will return the word value "Twelve Thousand Five Hundred And Twenty-Five Dollars And Eighty-Three Cents".It is comprised of a table for Number to Name and a procedure to parse into it's piecesNOTE: This only goes to billions at this point, but […]

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2002-04-11

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How to get last restore date and orginal DBName.

This script will output the Orignal DB Name, Destination DB Name and Last Restore date for the databases. You get a specific database just add a where clause against the appropriate field. It makes use of the restorehistory and backupset tables in the MSDB database.

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ORDER BY alias

There is a table tmp_tab:

CREATE TABLE tmp_tab (
id int,
val int
);
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES
(1, 1),
(2, NULL),
(3, 3),
(4, 4),
(5, 5);
You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
    ISNULL(val, id) + 1
Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct)

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