This script will obscure email addresses from robots even ones that ignore the tags to not snoop. Usually robots that ignore the tags, and the robots.txt file are used by spammers. They pull down the SOURCE of your page and scrape the email addresses from them. This script breaks the mail href into its base […]
2003-03-23
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Lets you search all db objects for a string.EXECUTE spFindTextInObjects 'UNION ALL', 1 GOEXECUTE spFindTextInObjects 'XML EXPLICIT'GOEXECUTE spFindTextInObjects 'DECLARE%CURSOR', 1GOEXECUTE spFindTextInObjects '@@IDENTITY', 1GO
2003-01-29
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This procedure can search all columns in one or all tables for a specified string. Prints out the TableName.ColumnName that the string is found in...-- Example Calls-- EXECUTE spFindTextInColumns MyTable, 'tcart' --search a specific table-- -- EXECUTE spFindTextInColumns default, 'tcart' --search all tables BUG FIX : (2003/01/20) Changed SELECT @columnName […]
2003-01-09
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Yee Haa, as if we couldn't annoy our users more with message boxes, emails, and other friendly pop ups ;P here comes the net send. Has a test for success to determine if the send worked. If an invalid name is entered it can take a bit to fail, so don't use this from a […]
2002-12-18
343 reads
These are little more than wrapper functions for xp_regread and xp_regwrite, but lets them be callable from views, if you desire to do so.
2002-12-18
190 reads
This stored procedure lets you retrieve the environment variables from the server. you can pass in a partial name to get the variables that start with the partial match, or bblank to retrieve all the environment variables.
2002-12-18
546 reads
Purpose: To compare two strings with a supplied operator and return true if the strings evaluate to true using the operator provided. This is useful for stored procs to use instead of dynamic sql. YAY! Allowing for the operator and value to be passed in as parms. So that the user on the front end […]
2002-12-07
868 reads
Here is a script I wrote to automate updating of permission on a database. Often running as sa I forget to set the rights for objects when distributing db objects. It provides the capability to process only certain object types, and whether or not to print and execute the persmissions change or just print out […]
2002-11-22
455 reads
This script will return how many time one string occurs within another. It will only work on SQL 2K as it is a UDF, but it could be converted to a stored proc with a output variable for SQL 7.0.
2002-11-15
351 reads
This UDF will take a delimited string and split it into a table. It has an identity field that is provided solely for uniqueness on the rows, but that can be removed to improve the speed, and optimize it. Sample call :dbo.fnSplit(, )@Data - the string to split apart@Delimiter - the seperator string, if DEFAULT […]
2002-11-15
1,134 reads
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Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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