In some cases, you may have to be able to quickly disable all the constraints and triggers in a database. This article shows you how to do this with a few lines of T-SQL.
2001-05-24
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This article will show you how to use the FileSystemObject to determine the existence of a file inside DTS.
2001-05-23
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Is there such a thing as a task where you would not need a cursor? Hidden in the depths of the master database are a series of stored procedures that can replace some cursors with these one-liners.
2001-05-22
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The case where one has to send the results of a query to a text file comes up quite often. This quick tip will show you how to output the results of a query to a text file.
2001-05-21
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An interesting database option which is hidden from Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 7.0 is offline.
2001-05-21
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In SQL Server 7.0 Data Transformation Services (DTS), dynamically configuring packages was difficult. With the aid of a new Dynamic Properties task in SQL Server 2000, this assignment is easy.
2001-05-18
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Global variables are a little known solution in Data Transformation Services (DTS). Often packages become "stale", where you must develop a package for each client.
2001-05-16
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In this article, we get you started with the core knowledge you'll need to transform your data using DTS.
2001-05-15
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In the latest release of SQL Server, Microsoft has added a number of new data types to expand the functionality of SQL Server.
2001-05-14
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Poorly managed SQL Server Security can not only leave your SQL Server vulnerable, but also leave your NT Server and network open to attacks.
2001-05-14
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By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers