Well this is an addendum to my earlier post for searching a specific string in all the Stored Procedures defined in a database and returning the name of the stored procedure in which it is contained. This is optimized based on suggestion of Greg and I thank him for his advise.
2004-04-09
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This script creates a stored procedure which helps to find text in all of your code objects in all your databases. It searches the code of SP's, UDF's, views, triggers, and it searches in all databases.Output is a result set with DbName, ObjectName and ObjectType.Advantages are- works reliable also with source codes longer than 4000 […]
2004-03-31
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This Stored Procedure is for Searching all the user defined Stored Procedures in a database for the existence of a specified string . This is especially useful when you have changed some Column name and want to Find the Column Name in all the Stored Procedures where it is used, so it will return you […]
2004-03-26
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This Function is a small script to retrieve the age of person based on date of birth to a particular date.Eg.select dbo.GetDateofbirth ('01/01/1975',GETDATE())RETURNS29Years 2Months 24Days that is the age.TESTED only on SQLSERVER 2000
2004-03-25
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This Function Enables the user to retrieve the Last Index of the character/string in a predetermined string.Eg If you want search for the Last Occurance of 'SQL' in 'SQL SERVER2000 USES ANSI SQL' thenSELECT dbo.LastIndexOf('SQL SERVER2000 USES ANSI SQL','SQL')will return 26.Tested Only in SQL SERVER2000
2004-03-25
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Continuing Steve Jones' series on string manipulation in T-SQL, this article examines how quotations are handled in T-SQL.
2004-03-25
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Function RJZeroN is used for formatting integer numbers as right-justified strings with leading zeroes according to a specified size (max 20 characters which will hold the largest BIGINT value). A NULL value is returned if the formatting cannot be done according to the values specified.Example: Format a 3-digit number as a 7-character numberstring with leading […]
2004-03-24
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Found a version of this on the net. removed the loop and if/thens and made it a case statement 2004-03-11: Changed '@%@' to '%@%@%'
2004-03-08
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This script uses the extended stored procedure xp_instance_regread to read a value from the registry
2004-02-20
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This script uses an old mathematical way of doing hierarchical queries. The most common way of showing hierarchical data in SQL Server is by creating a stored procedure that calls itself. This is not a recent problem, in fact this programming technique has been around since the first programming languages. By using stacks, you can […]
2007-05-02 (first published: 2004-02-17)
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What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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