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Use SQL to view Active Directory Data
If you want an easy way of viewing objects in Active Directory one good way of doing it is creating a view or stored procedure on SQL Server. By doing this you can easily call now the views or stored...
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Function to Clean Fields in SQL
Have you ever wondered how to clean fields in SQL, usually you have to LTRIM and RTRIM on each Field Object on your select statement which I used to do before when I was starting with SQL years ago,...
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Saving changes is not permitted. The changes that you have made require the...
I was importing some data from Excel to SQL 2008 this morning and everything seems to work well and fine. I successfully imported the data but I forgot to define the proper data types which means I...
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A good use for SQL OUTER APPLY
This week I have a lot of good challenges in SQL as we are building an SSIS package to unify data from different systems like Solomon, Raisers Edge, Goldmine, etc. A part of that SSIS Package is to...
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Observations (SQL Server – TSL and Oracle – PL/SQL Comparison)
Here are some useful information for those who knows TSQL and wants to learn PL/SQL. Lets start with the data types SQL Server Oracle image blob nchar(x) char(n*2) text clob datetime date real float...
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Performing SQL Query in Different Servers using a Single TSQL Command
Have you ever wondered how to perform the same query on different servers without going to each of the SQL Servers? Well I was presented this scenario just a while ago because I wanted to know what...
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Extracting Multiple Rows from a Single Row (TSQL)
I was tasked to create a query for an accounting journal entry from a transaction table with only amounts indicated, so if it’s a journal entry there should be a credit and debit but most of the other...
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Restricting Access to Database by Application Name and/or Host Name in SQL...
Have you ever thought of restricting access to the Database by Application Name or Host Name, that’s on top of the user credentials. For example you don’t want users to use SQL Query Analyser but...
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Deleting Files using File System Task in SSIS
I recently had noticed that deleting a file in SSIS using the File System Task is not straightforward specially when your file is not hardcoded in your package but it is declared as a variable. I just...
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Integrating Sharepoint 2010 and SQL Reporting Services 2008 in 6 easy steps
There are only 6 main steps to achieve this task assuming you already have an instance of SQL Server Reporting Services and Sharepoint 2010. I had created this starting from a clean installation of SQL...
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Auditing events on SQL Server 2008
If you want to audit whats happening on your SQL Server then look no further as SQL Server 2008 have a built in function for that, so you can log all Queries like Select, Insert, Updates and Deletes...
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Automating Backups on SQL Server Express Version
Automating Backups on SQL Server Express Version is not as it does not have a SQL Server Agent installed with the instance but dont worry as you can still do backups but manually using the free SQL...
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Reparing Suspect SQL Database
I’m not a DBA but I have a real life experience repairing a suspect databases twice, I guess I can say that I am unlucky at that time as I was presented in a tough situation where I am still in the...
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Making the best use out of Mainenance Plans on SQL Server
This article is about making the best use of the SQL Server Maintenance Plans, I am saying that because if you really want to do best practice maintenance on a SQL Server is that you should do it on a...
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Execute Stored Procedures in Parallel
After my post here, It seems that everything is working fine but I need performance out of it an my last resort is to Execute Stored Procedures in Parallel so I can run multiple instances in one run....
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Mirroring a SQL Server Database is not as hard as you think
Mirroring a database is not really a hard task to do, you just need this easy and simple 11 steps to start mirrored SQL Server. Doing it will not just improve you disaster recovery capabilities on...
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Median Calculation using TSQL (no cursors)
Before we start lets define what a Median is first, in laymans term the Median is the “middle number” in a sorted list of numbers. So in a sample like 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 100 The middle number which is...
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Create Alerts for SQL Server Mirroring Failovers
You might have SQL Mirroring enabled in your Enterprise but might not have alerting enabled or you don’t know how to enable it. If you want to enable that functionality just follow this 2 easy steps....
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Singularize Function in TSQL
Today I was trying to make a code generator for one of our projects to make our lives easier, basically I was trying to list all objects on our SQL Server database and Print a C# code output which I...
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Simple TSQL and C# Entity Generator for S#arp Architecture
Recently we started a big project which uses S#arp Architecture and for those who does not know what it is you can go to the site (http://www.sharparchitecture.net/) and have a read, but in a gist it...
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