Creating a PDF from a Stored Procedure in SQL Server
A short but interesting article, the author has figured out a way to create a PDF from a stored procedure without using a third party library.
2005-09-02 (first published: 2003-08-26)
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Miscellaneous
Compare Parallel Data Streams
This a script to compare two parallel data streams, in my case production and QA. Two extracts were created and a mapping table was created as a look-up between old and new recordids. A final table TestResults was created to hold the results of the comparison. The comparison table names and join syntax are controlled […]
2003-08-21
163 reads
Display Defragmentation Of Selected Tables
This script will display the defragmentation of table(s) all indexes of selected tables and display a table/list of the DBCC SHOWCONTIG. It will aslo will report if there are tables in the list that can't be found in the current database. Run the script in the database where the tables you want to check are.Check […]
2003-08-21
798 reads
Count rows in all tables over time SQL 2K only
This script will record all the rows in all tables of the database it's run on. Then, at each execution, it will compare the rows to what they originally were and display those that are different (inserts or deletes):
2003-08-20
307 reads
A more efficient ForEach routine
SQL 2000's sp_MSForEachDB and sp_MSForEachTable are useful procedures for performing operations against multiple objects; however, they aren't always extremely efficient, because internally they use cursors to do their work.These 2 sprocs, sp_ForEachDB and sp_ForEachTable, perform many of the same tasks as their Microsoft-shipped twins, but run faster because they dynamically build the SQL string without […]
2003-08-19
2,290 reads
List All Constraints
These four scripts list concise information about all Default, Check, Unique, Foreign Key, and Primary Key constraints for the database in which they are run. With minor column modifications, they could easily be unioned to provide a single list. The usual caveat applies about directly accessing system tables. They may change in future versions and/or […]
2003-08-14
1,121 reads
Database data dictionary
This script returns a description of the database with references to all tables in the database with keys listed. If the column description has been filled out the listing includes that text.If you want to get a report on the structure of each database, just add this script to each database, and then use a […]
2003-08-14
827 reads
Prime numbers generator
Very simple and straightforward script that creates a temporary table and fills it with prime numbers from 1 to the upper bound you specify. May be useful for educational purposes or even some cryptography applications.
2003-08-14
160 reads
Column_Gitter
This little utility comes in handy if you do a lot of SQL coding. Given a table name, it'll return four results: The names of the columns, the names with their datatypes, the list of columns with each one set to an identically-named variable, and a list of variables with the same names as the […]
2003-08-12
214 reads
AutoCode - Beta Release of SQL Editor
The authors of the application are offering a 30% discount off of the release price to those that participate in the beta cycle. Feature list includes autocomplete, db comparison and reconciling, and point/click constraint generation. (Not reviewed)
2003-08-08
552 reads
Blogs
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Forums
Developer edition cannot connect from other computers
I installed a new SQL server 2025 Enterprise developer edition for our development environment....
How Clustering can be Used as a Preprocessing Technique for Classification in Azure Machine Learning
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Moving the Error Log
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Question of the Day
Moving the Error Log
How can I change the location in which the SQL Server error log is written in SQL Server 2025?
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