This script will output the Orignal DB Name, Destination DB Name and Last Restore date for the databases. You get a specific database just add a where clause against the appropriate field. It makes use of the restorehistory and backupset tables in the MSDB database.
2002-04-11
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This script demonstrates a simple way to query a files create, modified or last accessed date without using a scripting and is availble in TSQL using xp_cmdshell.
2002-04-11
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With this script you can supply an money value such as $12525.83 and it will return the word value "Twelve Thousand Five Hundred And Twenty-Five Dollars And Eighty-Three Cents".It is comprised of a table for Number to Name and a procedure to parse into it's piecesNOTE: This only goes to billions at this point, but […]
2002-04-11
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This procedure will get week information ( number,day start-day finish) for requested date. By default output dates are in 'mm/dd/yyyy' format.Format of the output dates could be changed (see 'style' info in the SQL HelpFile for 'Convert' function)
2002-04-08
1,014 reads
Gets most important information of database structure. This includes all user tables, their fields, datatypes, defaults (including default constraint names), etc, primary keys and their fields, unique constraints and their fields, check constraints (including their conditions), foreign key constraints and their fields aswell as any other indexes and their fields. Should be quite useful for […]
2002-04-08
3,098 reads
Script that will show a method of replacing a cursor with a temporary table. This script will loop through all the databases on a server and run sp_spaceused on all user tables.
2002-04-08
663 reads
This procedure will get all tables with column information where column exist.There is an option to search for exact or "like" name. By default it's exact name
2002-04-08
867 reads
How to get current day with the timeportion = 00:00:00.000.Works regardless of locale.
2002-04-05
476 reads
Shows how to return data with a "rownumber". Some unique column is needed.
2002-04-05
382 reads
To find the day of week, regardless of-SET DATEFIRST -SET DATEFORMAT -SET LANGUAGEThe first one is based on Zellers Congruence.The second one is a SQL server proprietary.
2002-04-05
507 reads
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I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers