This function will strip all extra spaces, CRLFs and tabs from a SELECT statement, from the SELECT keyword to the End of the Order By clause, then reformat the statement to put all keywords at the left margin and subordinate clauses indented by ONE Tab. There is an example of a SELECT statement that came […]
2003-12-07
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This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all used fields), stored procedures (including used fields and parameters), database users, database settings and server settings.This script has been cobbled together from several others found on this site, so they deserve the recognition, not me 🙂Simply execute it […]
2003-12-05
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There are plenty of scripts out there that find duplicate indexes, but they all seem to use cursors. I didn't want to use a cursor so I ended up creating a few that could handle the duplicates and decided to share this one. This will return the table name and the names of the two […]
2003-12-04
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This article proposes a system where extra data is stored in a simple row based table and retrieved using the 'store key'. It's not a new concept of course, but the author explains how and why he chose to implement. Feedback should be interesting!
2003-12-04
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Returns the number of times any word in comma delimeted character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a comma delimeted character expression that OccursAny( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OccursAny( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OccursAny( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.Example:OccursAny('the,dog','The quick brown fox […]
2003-12-03
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In my company's web site there are search pages for allowing users to search info on one or more tables (or in my case a select with 10 joins). Often the requirements for these search pages change over time with users either requesting additional columns to search or remove columns that are no longer useful. […]
2003-12-03
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Returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a character expression that OCCURS( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OCCURS( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OCCURS( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.
2003-12-03
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T-SQL FunctionReturns passed 10,11 digit UPC codes with calculated checksum as 12th character.Based on http://www.mecsw.com/specs/upc_a.html
2003-12-02
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Allows user to search for stored procedures from the sysobjects table. Returns the name of the stored procedure with sp_helptext as a prefix. Useful in development environment where developers need to look up existing stored procedures.
2003-12-02
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This script will set the Logging properties for a group of DTS packages. To run this script stand-alone, you'll need to set 6 variables. sSvr, sDb, sUid, sPwd, iSec and sPkgMatch. If you use this script in a DTS package, you can assign the values from Global Variables. The sPkgMatch variable is used as a […]
2003-12-01
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers