2002-05-22
233 reads
Miscellaneous
Search for a value in a numeric variable list
When you have a variable that hold a comma separated numbers like '1,2,3' and you have a table with a column that has the value that should match a number in that list, you can use this script to avoid building a string and then executing it.You have to convert the columnID to varchar, the […]
2002-05-20
382 reads
Get Record Counts for All Tables in Every Database
This stored procedure produces a report of record counts for every table on your server. The record count report is organized by database, and table name.
2002-05-16
656 reads
Randomise the order of a SELECT
I have a set of data that I need to display in a random order each time I displayed it. There are several ways to do this, for example using a CURSOR to add each record to a temp table with a GUID, but a quick and dirty way to do this is to use […]
2002-05-16
517 reads
Notify All users loged in as SA
Procedure that net sends a message to any user who logged in as SA.IN. had to use this once in the company where SA password was blank for a while and managment did not want to set a password on the account. You can also set it to work with any username or for users […]
2002-05-14
883 reads
Get total file size of backup for last full backup
The information for backup size is stored in the backup_size column of the backupset table in the msdb database as the total bytes for that backup. This script allow you to look at the total back to tape or file so you can plan space needs for those devices. This is a simple piece of […]
2002-05-14
4,628 reads
Procedure for Random Numbers
Here is handy procedure to generate random number.I find it useful when I generate large amount of test data in a database.For example if you need to create a Customer Data and what they have purchased in the last month to run perfrmance tests on large amount of data an set up necessary indexes.You can […]
2002-05-13
695 reads
Get the current state of triggers.
One thing that many people may do is disable a trigger temporarily to make changes without the trigger causing an issue. This is a simple way to quickly get all the triggers states in a database, so you can verify is it enabled or disabled.
2002-05-12
496 reads
Convert numeric values to their English names
With this store procedure you can send a parameters like 2379.56 and it will return the word value "TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY NINE AND 56/100".
2002-05-10
685 reads
Parse a delimited string, return n-th value
This UDF will parse a string delimited by the character you specify and return the value in the n-th position you requested.Example:select dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 1) --> 'this'select dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 2) --> 'string'select dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 3) --> NULLselect dbo.fn_parse('this string', ' ', 2) --> ''
2002-05-10
498 reads
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