If you set up a default on a column AFTER data has been entered, then this procedure will apply the default to all NULL values within that column. Limitations: It only works with numeric values right now.You will also need the INSTR function, which you can also get from this site.This is my first […]
2004-10-13 (first published: 2004-07-22)
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There are times when you have mulitple job failures and need to find out in a quick way which jobs/steps failed and what their rerun statuses are. This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.
2004-10-12 (first published: 2004-07-21)
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Based on a script from this site, which sets ownership of all objects to dbo, this modification of the original author's code simply adds user defined functions (UDF's). Script now includes tables, views, procs and functions.
2004-10-07 (first published: 2004-07-19)
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Delete all rows from all user tables. Create stored procedure and execute the procedure to get rid of all rows from all tables. This will not drop your tables. Be very careful what you wish for!
2004-10-06 (first published: 2004-01-20)
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This script displays all tables in a database that has identity columns.
2004-10-06
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A simple script created to summarize locking by spid, by database, by type with more user friendly descriptions. You can also run for a specific spid. Hope it's useful.
2004-10-05 (first published: 2004-01-27)
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Returns the number of records within a table without having to perform COUNT.
2004-10-04 (first published: 2004-02-03)
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2004-10-01 (first published: 2004-02-16)
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This is a UDF that counts the days between two dates ignoring weekends and corporate holidays (as supplied in a lookup table). This ignores the time component but could be adjusted should you need to. If both days are on the same work day then the elapsed days is considered 1. If started Monday and […]
2004-09-30
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2004-09-30 (first published: 2004-02-16)
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
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