Return a list of all dates between a start and end date
In some situations, you'll need to work with a list of numbers or dates that are between some start or end, and you don't have a complete list handy for joining to. Using the script below, you can...
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Export from SQL Server to XLS and email results
Sometimes you want to take some query results and export them directly to an XLS file - here's how you can set that up in SQL Server. The biggest caveat is that you need to run it from an x86 instance...
View ArticleRefreshing changed .NET SQL CLR assemblies after patching/updates
After applying some Windows updates to one of my servers, I started getting the following error when I ran a customer .NET SQL-CLR stored proc: Server: Msg 6522, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 A .NET...
View ArticleQuerying Active Directory from SQL Server
SQL Server provides some pretty flexible integration with Active Directory through the ADSI Linked Server provider, something that's present by default when you install SQL Server. If you've never used...
View ArticleView SQL Server table updates per second
When trying to guage the level of database activity, you can use SQL Profiler to view the type and volume of transactions in motion at any given time and to view the overall level of database IO, but...
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