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Find Text in Stored Procedure, Function, View, or Trigger

How can I accurately find which SQL Server Stored Procedures, Views or Functions are using a specific text string, which can be a table name or any string that is part of the code?

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How to use @@ROWCOUNT in SQL Server

I would like to know the number of rows affected by my SQL Server query. I know this is displayed as a message in SQL Server Management Studio, but I have to check the number of rows in an IF statement to verify if everything went alright. How can I do this in SQL Server?

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Dates and Languages

Add and Subtract Dates using DATEADD in SQL Server

Date manipulation is a common scenario when retrieving or storing data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. There are several date functions (DATENAME, DATEPART, DATEADD, DATEDIFF, etc.) that are available and in this tutorial, we look at how to use the DATEADD function in SQL queries, stored procedures, T-SQL scripts, etc. for OLTP databases as well as data warehouse and data science projects.

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Sparse Column Defaults