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Proc to Query MSDB..SYSJOBS and SYSJOBSTEPS

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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.The […]

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2002-06-07

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Proc to Query Syscomments and Sysobjects

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TSQL:Procedure to Query for Dependent ObjectsJack 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 dependednt objects or references.I also created another […]

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2002-06-07

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Get Notified When Accounts Are Changed

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Perfect for finding developers that are changing your database accouts.  This procedure can check the sysusers table for each database and\or the master..syslogins table for account changes.  Gives the option of email notification, logging to a table or both. Update the set statements at the begining of the procedure to configure it however you like.  […]

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2002-06-07

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Alert When Not Enough Free Disk Space

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--Implement an Alert Which Trigger when Specified Disks--free space exceeds a specified alert level--Steps to implement:--1) Define a Custom Error Message with messsage text (The ---drive free space is bellow alert level. Details: %s)--2) Define an Alert linked to CEM defined at step 1--3) Implement a Job which execute the following step in a recurring […]

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2002-06-04

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Modified SP_who

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Here is a modified SP_WHO procedurewhich returns more information about the current session.I forgot all the thing that i have added to the sproc, but the last addition shows the last executed TSQL statement.There might be a better solution to get the values from DBCC rowset, thou I did not have time to think everything […]

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2002-05-28

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Attach Excel Workbook

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After installing bellow procedure you will be able to easly attach workbook and read data from it.This example shows how to attach excel file (c:\temp\orders.xls) and display data from named range (Table1):Exec mysp_AttachWorkbook 'c:\temp\orders.xls', 'MyOrders'Select * from MyOrders...Table1

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2002-05-25

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TableCounts

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This script generates a statement that you would then run in the user database to get rowcounts of all tables. The advantages of this approach are you can modify it to get just the tables you want, and the output is easy to read:Table1-------1069Table2------10427

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2002-05-24

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Monitor Object Changes

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Based on post http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=4349 I decided to write this script which will check for object changes in all databases and send an email listing the objects changed to the Operator associated with the job. This by no means offsets the need to restrict change access to objects in production, but in those cases when you […]

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2002-05-23

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Script to sort by columns that may include NULLs

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If you sort by in ASC order by column that may include NULLs and empty strings ( if type is varchar), the records with nulls will always appear before any others.This script will show how to chagne this pattern and move all records with NULLs to the bottom of your recordset

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2002-05-23

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Too Many Choices

I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:

BrandID OfficialName
1       Samsung
2       Apple
3       Microsoft
4       Adidas
5       Coca-Cola
I run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel')
FROM dbo.MasterBrands;

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