Searches SysComments for occurances of entered keywords and returns a list of procedures that contain the keywords. eg1) To find all procedures with 'nMyColumn' in EXEC utl_ProcSearch 'nMyColumn' eg2) To find all procedures with 'nMyColumn' in and 'nMyColumn2' in EXEC utl_ProcSearch 'nMyColumn', 'nMyColumn2' eg3) To find all procedures with temporary tables in... EXEC utl_ProcSearch '#' […]
2002-02-04
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The procedure looks at the table you want to be audited and writes the INS, UPD, and DEL triggers automatically required for the auditing to work. The auditing requires a table called Progress to hold the audit information in so have provided the DDL for this as well. Typically you would write a cursor to […]
2002-02-04
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It calculates log free space in mb and in percent for all databases, and also show the quantity of different objects for one databases.
2002-02-02
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I wanted to be able to use info about an operating system file in TSQL. So I wrote this stored procedure that uses the special stored procedures xp_fileexist and xp_getfiledetails. This can tell if a file or folder exists, and if it is a file what is its size, created date and time, last written […]
2002-02-01
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This stored procedure reads the file names from a directory and stores just the names in a given table. It returns also the number of files present. The sp uses xp_cmdshell and so permissions are restricted to sysadmins and SQLAgentCmdExec. You can test with the following: Create Table ##tmp2 ( fldx nvarchar(255) ) Declare @FilePath […]
2002-02-01
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XML support in SQL Server lives up to the hype that's always surrounded XML. Using SQL Server 2000, you can send queries over HTTP, save XML records to the database, and retrieve records via XML. This article shows how you can take advantage of these features in SQL Server 2000 by building a database entry system that keeps track of sales and customer information.
2002-01-28
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It is used to show information from a database. It shows the creation date, it calculates the time in days, months and hours since its creation and it shows all the users with rights in that database.
2002-01-27
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Script that executes DBCC Checkdb in all databases, creates a log file in c:\Checkdb\ in a folder with the current date, and a file with the format: DB_Date.log Also sends each log in an attachment by Email.
2002-01-27
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If you are like most DBAs, you have probably implemented some type of hash function for some of your tables at one time or another. This article takes a look behind the scenes as to how the Identity property works.
2002-01-17
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Displays the hit ratio of the buffer, procedure and log caches. Does not check for div by zero as I am lazy. Tested on SS2k (any SP).
2002-01-15
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I am dealing with issues on my SQL Server 2022 instance related to collation. I have an instance collation of Latin1_General_CS_AS_KS_WS, but a database collation of Latin1_General_CI_AS. I want to force a few queries to run with a specified collation by using code like this:
DECLARE @c VARCHAR(20) = 'Latin1_General_CI_AS'
SELECT p.PersonType,
p.Title,
p.LastName,
c.CustomerID,
c.AccountNumber
FROM Person.Person AS p
INNER JOIN Sales.Customer AS c
ON c.PersonID = p.BusinessEntityID
COLLATE @c
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