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.
2019-09-20 (first published: 2003-08-26)
74,263 reads
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
305 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
2,289 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
826 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
158 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
212 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
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers