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Global System UDF to return ISO Date string

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Updated for Permission assignment change 1/11/1006. Ok, I'll bet that you are asking, What is a Global System UDF, right? By Global I mean that the UDF is available from any database on the server. By System I mean that the two part naming rule does not apply to this scalar function. The UDF conversion […]

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2006-01-26 (first published: )

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Get the #lines in a TSQL view/SP/UDF of a String

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The following procedure gets a TSQL program object(View/UDF/stored procedure) and a given stringIt searched object's source code for the string and returns the number of lines where a match is found.This is helpful when we want to search all our TSQL code for a specific table name, column etc. and investigate where it is referenced […]

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2005-06-02

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Return WeekNo (ISO 8601 standard)

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In MS SQL, January 1 of any year defines the starting number for the week. The DATEPART(wk, 'Jan 1, xxxx') always return 1. However, a lot of reports Week No is actually based on ISO 8601 standard, that is January 1 of any year can be Week 53/52 or Week 1. (http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/weekinfo.htm#IDC)The Rule is as […]

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2005-06-14 (first published: )

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Check missing exec permission on Stored proc

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Stored procedure usp_CheckMissingPermission_for_User checks missing exec permission for given user or group on all the stored procedures within the database. It not only detects missing exec permission, but also generates a scripts for you to fix the problem.

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2005-05-30 (first published: )

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Generate Insert Statements Easily - Updated

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This script will generate insert statements for the given tables. You can pass the tables names, separated by commas, into sp_DataAsInsCommand stored procedure as in the example below:EXEC sp_DataAsInsCommand 'employee,titleauthor,pub_info'Updated on 5/25/01 to correct an issue with columns that are short like a column defined as char(1), to correct another issue with the Identity column […]

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2005-06-01 (first published: )

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