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A Simply way to implement Audit Trail in SQL 2005

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In a recent project, I need to record audit trail for some tables (for Insert, Update and Delete).Using SQL 2005's XML datatype and the XML support it is very covenienet to use triggers to perform the audit trail requirement. I create one table (Table_Audit)  to hold all audit trial data. One stored procedure is created […]

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2007-09-20

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Get Foreign Key of all the tables for Sqlserver DB

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This script will create two views and select the data from the TableReferences view. This view will give list of all the foreignkeys of the selected database with its constraint name, the table name and column name(s) on which the constraint is created and the referencing table name and column name(s).

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2006-09-25 (first published: )

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IP Numeric To String

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A user defined function that converts an integer value to an IP address in dot notation format. This is performed by promoting a 32 bit signed integer value to a signed 64 bit bigint and converted to a binary representation of the integer. The purpose of this script is to allow the storage of an […]

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2005-11-01 (first published: )

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Adding and Dropping Columns II

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Adding and Dropping Columns II

I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList]
(
[CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1),
[CityName] [varchar] (30) ,
[Country2] [char] (3),
[stateprovince2] [char] (2),
[Country] [char] (3),
[stateprovince] [char]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use?

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