This isn't a very common scenario, but I figured I'd write about it anyway. We recently implemented a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain at work. I suggested to my employer that, going forward, we only install SQL Server 2005 when we need a database server (phasing out 2000). I'd also suggested consolidating a couple …

Using SQL and want to know how many times 'http' appears in a string using about one line of code? Find out by creatively using the replace() function.

Declare @myStr varchar(1500), @countStr varchar(100) Set @myStr = 'https://www.buydrugshere.com go here! https://www.onlinemortage.com right there!' Set @countStr = …

This is a barebones script that gathers server events across a domain and stores them in SQL Server using asyncronous notifications as seen in this sample of the code:

strWQL = "Select * from __InstanceCreationEvent where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_NTLogEvent'" objWMIService.ExecNotificationQueryAsync …