2011-10-03 (first published: 2008-03-27)
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Robert Cary
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SQL Server 2005 Paging – The Holy Grail
Handling the paging of results in T-SQL has been a challenge for a long time. Robert Cary presents an interesting technique in this article.
2010-05-08 (first published: 2009-03-11)
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Searching Syscomments Accurately
As a SQL Server DBA you should know that your code is stored in syscomments by default. While most DBAs use version control systems, there are times you might want to look through the code on the server for comparison purposes. Robert Cary brings us an article on how you can do this in 2000 and 2005.
2008-01-07 (first published: 2007-01-22)
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Search All Columns in all tables
This script will quickly generate DML to search all the tables in the current database for a given string. It could be modified to execute the generated code if desired. If you are running this in a
2007-01-23 (first published: 2007-01-04)
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Find Nth Occurrence of Character Function (Set Based)
This function was originally contributed by other visitors. Below is an example of a set based approach to the problem. This script requires a numbers table (see SqlServerCentral article http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/2547.asp for more details)Please note that this code is uses SQL2005 featuresEnjoy!Robert Caryhttp://tsqlland.blogspot.com
2006-10-20 (first published: 2006-09-18)
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Implementing a T-SQL semaphore
SQL Server does a great job of handling concurrency & ensuring that users can make changes in multi-user systems without conflict. However there are times a strict calling order is needed.
2006-10-17
20,275 reads
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