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Category: (MySQL)
... to use the system you were given. Given a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) where deleting some erroneous rows in one table will cause errors because the existence of those rows is stored in ...Created on 11 January 2013 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
What? This is a stored procedure I've nabbed from some consultants from my day job. It shuffles the records and matching data values: Before: ID Name DateOfBirth --------- ------------ ...Created on 07 December 2012 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
... "WarehouseLoadKey" and the value we want to search on is "3" (the 3rd incremental load). How? The below stored procedure can be reduced to just a script as long as you declare and set the parameters ...Created on 05 November 2012 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
What? Yes you could just run a SELECT DISTINCT query along with collation to make it case-sensitive and/or accent-sensitive but using this stored procedure means I only specify the table and then the ...Created on 26 October 2012 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
... example which outputs a huge SQL query which you then copy & paste and run against your database. Step 1 of 2 The following stored procedure will generate the full query to your output panel: CREATE ...Created on 11 October 2012 -
Category: (Oracle SQL)
What? How to use the randomization features of Oracle PL/SQL. Why? I've been tasked with writing a stored procedure that scrambles data for developers working with some of our databases containing ...Created on 21 August 2012 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
Why? Hmm... I was writing a stored procedure that will scramble data given a table as a parameter. Because I only want to update a temporary table and not the original (source) table, I needed the ...Created on 03 August 2012 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
... bottom of this page. Go go go Note that in the following examples, I'm checking under the [Common] schema, this might be [dbo] for you or a more specific one. -- drop a stored procedure if it ...Created on 03 August 2012 -
Category: (Transact SQL)
This was called a Data-Scrambling Function but it depends on what you mean by "scrambling". This is a function which merely uses the same characters but switches their order randomly, so I've renamed ...Created on 01 August 2012 -
Category: (MS Windows)
... This file will be stored in the folder that you asked to list. Instead of C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe, I could have used %Comspec% or even %windir%\system32\cmd.exe but with some group policies, you ...Created on 19 July 2012 -
Category: (Oracle SQL)
Why? We have a stored procedure which contains two select queries. The first query will retrieve a student ID number where the input parameter is the student's username. The second query will return ...Created on 24 January 2012 -
Category: (MS Reporting Services)
What? So I've spent a fun time googling and binging but still haven't found a simple and complete example of getting a resultset from an Oracle stored procedure and displaying this in SQL Server Reporting ...Created on 19 January 2012 -
Category: (Oracle SQL)
Previously For a basic Oracle function, visit my article Basic Oracle Function Structure. For a more advanced version which uses cursors to work with SSRS, see my article Oracle Stored Procedures in ...Created on 16 January 2012 -
Category: (MediaWiki)
What? In not as many words as others, here's my MySQL query to extract details on images stored in the MediaWiki CMS system (v1.14). Why? Prior to a migration and just after another change freeze, ...Created on 06 December 2011 -
Category: (Documentation)
... a command prompt and to type "ipconfig /flushdns" then "ipconfig /registerdns" and the connections would have been restored. As I love automation and reducing processes to single-click fixes, I ...Created on 25 November 2011 -
Category: (MS Reporting Services)
... that there appears a link that will run a stored procedure which Updates a timestamp in an existing table Inserts a row into an audit table I need the report to run the stored procedure, then ...Created on 04 November 2011 -
Category: (MS Reporting Services)
I have googled, binged and asked but to no avail. Some self-proclaimed IT experts in forums said "why would you want to do that?". Unhelpful Bellends. It's a bit like asking me "Why can't I turn on ...Created on 11 October 2011 -
Category: (WordPress)
... 3.X a.name AS 'display_name' FROM my_joomla_db.jos_users a ORDER BY a.id; A bit more to do: PHP file So I needed to do a loop and rather than complicate things with stored procedures and ...Created on 03 October 2011 -
Category: (MS Reporting Services)
The Situation We want some photos taken from another website of ours to display in our report. These are not stored locally on the Reporting Server because other services use these photos on our Intranet ...Created on 19 September 2011 -
Category: (MS Reporting Services)
... add parameters to a Stored Procedure of an Oracle database from within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The Error ORA-00911: invalid character ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_UTILITY", line ...Created on 02 September 2011