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Dynamically Alter all your Tables.....

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This script allows you to dynamically alter all the tables in your database.  In the script i am building up an alter statement that adds a 'TimeStamp' column a table.If anyone knows a better way to do this kind of thing, feel free to drop me a mail (jamie.moffat@infographics.co.uk)

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2002-07-04

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Enumerate SQL Servers using SQLDMO and T-SQL

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Microsoft reported BUG :ListAvailableServers Method of the SQLDMO.Application Object Causes Error 0x800A000E .When you execute the ListAvailableServers method of the SQLDMO.Application object from an ASP page, the following error message may occur: Microsoft SQL-DMO (0x800A000E) [SQL-DMO]Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. However, there is some solution to get SQL servers using Client […]

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2002-06-19

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Query MSDB for Search String

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TSQL:Procedure to Lookup JobsJack Donnell,jack@JackDonnell.com Have you ever kept altering the same query to look for different items in you database?I took a hint from MS with all the sp_help and other system stored procedures and made a two scripts this one to query for databases scheduled tasks or jobs as they are now called.Here […]

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2002-06-16

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Trigger to replace strings in the Text field.

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I was looking over internet trying to find a SP or UDFto replace string accourences in the Text fields, I didn'tfind any so I created ths trigger, may be it will be usefull as example. Be aware on the big documents it can be time consuming.All it does is replacing < and > substrings of […]

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2002-06-14

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Scan stored procedures in all databases

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I wrote this for the developers because they were always asking me to find all of their stored procedures that did X.It scans through the syscomments text in each database looking for the requested string.  User must have read access on the syscomments and sysobjects tables in each database.

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2002-06-14

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Comma Separated List Of Field Names

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Returns a single row with a single column containing a comma-separated list of the field names for a specified table. I find this very useful when doing INSERT statements where I have to list out each field being inserted. I simply bind this proc to a hotkey and use the hotkey to get the comma-separated […]

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2002-06-12

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