Data Dictionary from within SQL Server 2000
Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary!
2007-10-02 (first published: 2002-02-11)
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Mindy Curnutt
Get Record Counts for Each Table
This script creates a stored procedure that you can call to get the record count for every table in a particular database. It uses the sp_MSforeachtable system stored procedure and a temp table.
2002-02-25
665 reads
Recompile Views/SPs from DOS from .SQL Files.
This script is very helpful for anyone trying to recreate particular SQL Server Database Versions for Testing. It allows you to automatically recompile any stored procedures or views saved with drop, create and permission statements. The scripts must all be sitting in one directory and end in the same extension. I have found this very […]
2002-02-25
699 reads
Using Stored Procedures for SQL Server DML
Designing your application so that Stored Procedures are the only database objects that are accessed is generally the best practice. Agree? Disagree? Read this article by guest columnist Mindy Curnutt to see what she thinks!
2001-08-01
12,789 reads
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Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
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