My friend Brandon messaged me this morning telling me that he ran into the same issues with Office 2007 Professional (which he won & subsequently downloaded from Microsoft's website). The Office 2007 file extraction locked up even though memory & cpu usage was next-to-nothing so, eventually, he cancelled out …

I'm nearly a year behind on this but I just found the free 7MB CHM of the Scripting Guy archive which contains every published article from August 2004 to June 2006. This is a great compliment to the Windows IT Pro Master CD which is still 50%off (now $30).

Editor’s note (2025): AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was discontinued in 2017. This post reflects observations from 2007 about AIM 6’s network behavior at that time. A friend asked me what port AIM used and I guessed something along the lines of 5190. I wanted to check to make sure and, after issuing the command netstat …

Here's some code that I'm posting mainly for my future reference. I do not recommend running this anywhere near a production machine. 1DECLARE @SQL varchar(8000) -- if you use nvarchar for whack table names, change this to 4000 2SET @SQL = '' 3 4SELECT @SQL = @SQL + 5 'ALTER DATABASE ' + NAME + ' …

As you probably know, Microsoft provides two undocumented/unsupported stored procedures for iterating through databases, sp_msforeachdb and sp_msforeachtable. I've always wondered, then, why the following code never showed up in Google searches: 1sp_MSforeachdb @command1 = 'EXEC sp_msForEachTable @COMMAND1= …

There are a few ways to do this but here's one that I like. I believe it works in SQL Server 7, 2000 and 2005. 1ALTER DATABASE myDatabaseName SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE 2GO 3USE myDatabaseName 4GO Go ahead and do what you need to do then set it back: 1ALTER DATABASE myDatabaseName SET MULTI_USER

This is more of a post for proper keywords. My previous entry titled "Import MaxMind City CSVs into SQL Server 2005" assumes the user has already conducted research to find that MaxMind's free GeoIP database provides the functionality to look up the location of an IP address. So, if you wish to quickly and …

I'd like to start this post by saying that BCP is limited and ghe-toe, but it gets the job done to some degree. One of the guys over at SQLteam.com wrote a really informative post on Flat File Bulk Import methods speed comparison in SQL Server 2005 that you should check out if you are into that sort of thing. BCP ranks …

Inspired by kitty0's GeoIP Demo (site no longer online), I created two scripts which automatically import the free MaxMind GeoIP City database (legacy) into SQL Server using VBS and BCP. The VBS file can be set as a Scheduled Task for MaxMind's free once-a-month updates. I also created a SQL Server UDF to access the …

Earlier today, I pasted some code into a Linux-based vi via putty/ssh, saved it, zipped it, and downloaded it to a Windows machine. The result was pooh; the code ran but was garbled in notepad. I wondered if I could somehow run a command in Linux to clean/convert all the carriage returns. One of my friends at …