Given database, owner, table, and column names, this procedure returns one from among several column attributes such as type definition, defaults, and other types of constraints. E.g., to retrieve the type definition of the 'pubs' database's 'author.address':DECLARE @attrib VARCHAR (500) , @msg VARCHAR (8000)EXEC p_get_column_attribute 'TYPEDEF' […]
2002-07-24
120 reads
Scalar function 'f_contains' counts the number of times the first argument occurs within the second argument.Given: @arg1, @arg2 (both VARCHAR), @cnt INTSELECT @cnt = dbo.f_contains (@f_search_for = @arg1 , @f_container = @arg2)
2002-07-22
369 reads
Scalar function 'f_delimited' slices out of a passed-in string, from a specified position inside the string, that segment of it which is delimited on one or both sides by a specified delimiter.Example: Print out a segment of a 'syscomments.text' column for a stored procedure 'p_proc', representing a line of code (i.e., the segment of 'syscomments.text' […]
2002-07-22
100 reads
Procedure 'p_find_string' allows users to specify any database on a server in searching for a specified character string. Supported for string-searching: table columns, view columns, trigger, function, and procedure code. Produces a report showing: object type, owner, object name, column id (for tables and views) or what line number (for triggers, functions, and procedures), and […]
2002-07-22
114 reads
This function was written to supplant cumbersome age-at calculations. To execute, simply set a local INT variable equal to the output of the function. For example, the following, given my birthdate, computes my own age: DECLARE @age_at INT SET @age_at = dbo.f_age_at ('2/16/1954', GETDATE ())
2002-05-09
988 reads
By Steve Jones
I saw someone struggling with getting started with a Visual Studio project and Azure...
By Brian Kelley
If you’re looking at data masking tools, I recently was able to review the...
By Steve Jones
This week the cost of the PASS Data Community Summit jumps up to full...
I have a report which get a Date Parameter.. I don't want to display...
I have a report which get a Date Parameter.. I don't want to display...
Hello my SQL friends, I want to know about few of the best approaches/methodologies/applications...
Ask SSC