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Suppose you had a 4 character field (prefx), and you wanted to find all those records where the 2nd and 4th characters were numeric, with the other two being alphabetic. Here’s a neat, simple solution:
select * from TableName where prefx like‘[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9]’
We recently had to ‘migrate’ a vendor supplied database with a vendor-supplied process. We were warned that the database log file could grow some 10,000% !!!! Not finding that particularly palatable, I upped the transaction log backup to every minute. I needed some scripts that would allow me to monitor the process and verify that I could escape the vendor’s dire prediction. The scripts that follow did just that… Continue reading “Monitoring Log File Growth in SQL Server”
I can’t always remember ok, make that i frequently forget things. Can i use SSMS to help me? Yes! Continue reading “Dba’s Memory Assistant”
Ok, so what the heck does that error mean? Continue reading “Error formatting query, probably invalid parameters”
For the 4th time, I’ve tried to open a job step and been prevented with this mysterious error “Creating an instance of the COM component” … The fix is normally simple, just navigate to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\binn directory and
run the following command (from a DOS box):
REGSVR32.EXE dts.dll
15 seconds later you should get a window stating it was successful.