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spAddField

spAddField is the proc I use to add all fields to the db in our upgrade scripts.  With this proc, you pass it the tablename, fieldname, datatype, and null or not null.  This will call spGetFieldsExists and see if the fields exists or not.  If it does, spAddField will drop that column.  Then it readds […]

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2002-03-05

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spFindTableInfo

spFindTableInfo is a great proc for finding info about your database.  It will accept parameters like tablename, fieldname, size, datatype.  So you can run it with no params, and it'll report every table, every field in those tables, and the size, datatype and whether its nullable or not.  You can filter it by Table name […]

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