The end of the year approachs and soon it will be time to celebrate Christmas with your family and friends. At dbi services, we wish you a merry christmas via SQL Server with the following script, to execute in your SQL Server Management Studio for example (supported only by SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014). You will find a suprise in the result pane 🙂
SET NOCOUNT ON;
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IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM tempdb.sys.objects WHERE name LIKE N’#SURPRISE%’)
      DROP TABLE #SURPRISE;
GO
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CREATE TABLE #SURPRISE
(
col1 CHAR(290)
);
GO
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INSERT #SURPRISE VALUES (REPLICATE(CHAR(111),16));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1), 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(165));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(77) + CHAR(101) + CHAR(114) + CHAR(114) + CHAR(121));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(165));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(246));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(149));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(165));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(67) + CHAR(104) + CHAR(114) + CHAR(105) + CHAR(115) + CHAR(116) + CHAR(109) + CHAR(97) + CHAR(115) );
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(165));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(42));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(42));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(95));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(124));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(124));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(95));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(95));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(95));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(95));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(95));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(42));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(42));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(186));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(186));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(42));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(47));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(47));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(126));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, + CHAR(92));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(186));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(182));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(124));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(164));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(164));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(2) + CHAR(124));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(91));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(93));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(124));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(176));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + REPLICATE(CHAR(42), 19));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(3) + CHAR(100) + CHAR(98) + CHAR(105));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(1) + CHAR(115) + CHAR(101) + CHAR(114) + CHAR(118) + CHAR(105) + CHAR(99) + CHAR(101) + CHAR(115));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, SPACE(5) + CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, CHAR(46));
UPDATE #SURPRISE SET col1 = STUFF(col1, LEN(col1) + 1, 50, REPLICATE(CHAR(111), 17));
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DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(100);
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SELECT
      @SQL = ‘DBCC TRACEON(3604); DBCC PAGE (”tempdb”, 1, ‘ + CAST(allocated_page_page_id AS VARCHAR(20)) + ‘, 1)’
FROM sys.dm_db_database_page_allocations(2, OBJECT_ID(‘tempdb..#SURPRISE’), 0, NULL, DEFAULT)
WHERE is_iam_page = 0 AND is_allocated = 1;
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EXEC(@SQL);
Merry Christmas to all of you!
By David Barbarin
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