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Rebuild and Reorganize Indexes in SQL 2005

This SP rebuilds and reorganizes all indexes in the specified database or all databases. You can run code or generate code. Database will be set in bulk logged mode during processing and set back to normal when finished.Different SQL Editions are handled. LOB indexes, row and page locking options, number of processors, concurrent users and […]

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2007-01-30 (first published: )

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Function Used to Reformat Phone Numbers

Can use this to select , insert and update phone fields into a standard format. Select FormatPhone(phone_column) from table Update Table set phone_column=FormatPhone(phone_column)Where ...Insert Into Table ( column1, phone_primary ...) Values ( 'qwerty', FormatPhone(1455846677)And the like --

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2007-01-25 (first published: )

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Drop a Column and its Constraints and Indexes

Drops the specified column from the specified table as well as any constraints and indexes that depend on the column. By default the script will just find the corresponding column, constraints, and indexes.Comes in handy for patching databases.

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2007-01-24 (first published: )

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SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Analysis Report Stylesheet

XSLT Stylesheet to produce developer/object oriented html report from SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor xml report file. Name the script sqlupad.xsl and insert the following  as the first line in the xml Upgrade Advisor report file. Place sqlupad.xsl file in same directory as the xml report. This stylesheet works against Database Server component reportonly, does […]

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2007-01-17 (first published: )

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Validating Canadian Postal Codes

For fellow Canadians and neighbours to the south, you may find useful a function to validate the formatting of a Canadian postal code.  More than once I've had to work with web programmers on checking that a postal code meets the A1A1A1 style, so carry around a function that simply returns a true/false bit if […]

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2007-01-15 (first published: )

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SQL Server Availability Monitoring

This VB script will attempt to make a connection to all SQL Servers enumerated in the SQLInventory table over Named Pipes and TCP\IP. If a SQL Instance is listed, it will attempt TCP\IP connections using both port and instance name. Once the connection is established to each server using each protocol, the script will query […]

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2007-01-11 (first published: )

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Question of the Day

What's the Ceiling?

What do I get as the results from this code?

SELECT CEILING (999.999), CEILING (-999.999);

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