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Change to readable date format

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Trigger to insert date into table in the form of01/01/00 12:00:00instead of SQL standard date format2000-01-01 12:00:00.000This allows easily comparing to or updating based onOracle date formats or a readable format for the web.triggername - name of the triggerTABLENAME - name of the table that trigger is created onCOLUMNNAME - name of column in TABLENAME […]

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2006-08-21 (first published: )

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get rich schema details of all or some tables

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to get information about tables+columns+primarykeys+foreignkeys+identity, i firstly used SQL server built-in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.xxx. however, my company have various DBAs and each of them owns objects. when using INFORMATION_SCHEMA.xxx, it retrieves data based on current login (version 2005 resolves this schema v.s. object owner problem already... yeah) , which bring me a great trouble. if you want […]

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2006-08-30 (first published: )

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