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Split delimited values into a table using T-SQL UDF.

Much to my dismay this morning, I had problems opening a VPN connection home: The connection opened, but wouldn’t retrieve an IP address from the DHCP server… okay, not a problem, I can just manually set an IP and be on my merry way. It would have been that easy if the OpenVPN TAP adapter [...]

A T-SQL query to verify the size and growth settings for a SQL Server database without resorting to the Management Studio GUI.

Sitting on my couch one night, I noticed that the time on my laptop was about 10 minutes slow compared to every other time source in my house (mobile phone, cable box, etc.)… Since I’m running a domain environment, I knew that most of my OS installations would be syncing to the domain controller, so I [...]

Ever needed to round an arbitrary DATETIME to some specified increment (i.e. 5, 10 or 15 minutes)? This function can come in handy for such a task.


  • shiva ramani: good instruction. How to push data to MySQL from SQL 2005 [...]
  • Winkey: I've created a linked server for mysql successfully, and also can do Insert, Select. But when I try [...]
  • RaghuRam: Thanks a lot buddy it helped me to change the root password when I got the error trying to c [...]
  • Taylor Gerring: If you're on a 64-bit OS, did you run the 32-bit version of ODBC applet? Run: odbcad32 [...]
  • Taylor Gerring: If the issue is the guest sync'ing to the host, can't you just force time sync the host if you can't [...]


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