SP_SQLSMTPMail is an OLE automation implementation of the CDOSYS dll for Windows 2000 which utilizes a network SMTP server rather than an Exchange server/Outlook client. The stored procedure functions similar to xp_sendmail including the ability to run a query and attach the results. No MAPI profile is required. It is also a working, detailed example […]
2005-10-12 (first published: 2002-10-08)
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I submit this script as an example of how one might go about generating 'Alter Table' statements that find and replace specific column constraints. In my case I had to find all occurrences in a production db of suser_name() as a column constraint and replace it with suser_sname(). This script is only an example and […]
2002-10-08
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Pivot a table from vertical rows to horizontal results with a single select statement; no cursor.
2002-10-04
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The usual practice, when we need some test data, is to employ the pseudo-random built-in function RAND(). We usually use it to produce a random value in some range and it produces these values with the same probabilities. Sometimes we need more "realistic" data when some values are more probable than others are. In this […]
2002-10-04
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Sometimes it is usefull to log stuff in SQL server while stored procs are running. If a long stored proc runs you sometimes want to be able to log a message in a loggin file. But what if a rollback occurs.... The message is lost as well.Here is a method to set up a seperate […]
2002-10-01
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T-SQL's CHARINDEX() function is a useful for parsing out characters within a string. However, it only returns the first occurrence of a character. Oftentimes one needs to locate the Nth instance of a character or a space, which can be a complicated task in standard T-SQL. This function I wrote, imaginatively named CHARINDEX2(), allows one […]
2002-09-27
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The first part will create 2 stored procedures with self-explanatory names. The second is a standalone SQL that may be used in any stored procedure, script or DTS package.The generated string does not have any spaces and include only lower-case letters. To include anything else just change the boundaries for ASCII codes in the script.The […]
2002-09-26
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A very simple script that will first create a role (if it does not exist yet) and then grant full permissions on tables, views and stored procedures to the newly created role. Of course, you can add any filtering (i.e. grant permissions only for tables beginning with "abc") or grant partial permissions (SELECT or DELETE […]
2002-09-26
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IN a scenario where the user would like to retrieve the Count(*) from a table without any condition, in that case this query will workselect count(*) from 'Suppose product is the table,if the product table is light then its ok but if it contains a huge data, then this query can be used.select max(rowcnt) from […]
2002-09-26
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The objective is to find circular references in a single table related to itself. The script deals with a sample table Skills that have a SkilGUID (primary key) field and a SkilParentGUID field which is a foreign key to the record's parent from the same table. The number of levels in the hierarchy is not […]
2002-09-24
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