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Get Column Lists script

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This is a script like Column_Gitter by Rick Bolin (RickInMesa), it differs in the fact that it does not use cursors, it optionally adds the table name, it handles UDDT (User Defined Data Types) properly, and handles the new SQL Server 2000 datatypes.Usage: Open this script in QA, Change QA to the desired Database, Edit […]

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2003-09-24

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Replace Mult Instances of a Pattern in a String

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This function takes a pattern to be searched for, a string that the pattern will be removed from and a flag to determine whether all instances of the pattern should be removed.This is sort of an expanded version of a function I wrote to remove multiple spaces from a string.

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2003-08-20

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Column_Gitter Part Deux

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This script is similar to Column_Gitter.  I noticed this script and wanted to present the same output without the use of cursors.  Both scripts work well and produce the same results.  This little utility comes in handy if you do a lot of SQL coding. Given a table name, it'll return four results: The names […]

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2003-08-14

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ISINTEGER function

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This function is similar to the ISNUMERIC native function, but tests for a valid integer.  ISNUMERIC can return false positive results when testing for a valid integer.  For example this select returns a value of 1 (true):select isnumeric('3d8')For 6.x and 7.0, you can easily convert it to a procedure.

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2003-08-14

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Getting Information about Database Objects

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It is sometimes necessary to have information regarding the database objects like stored procedures and triggers for e.g. we need to get information about a stored procedure like what paramters it has and so on.The sp_help system stored procedure comes in handy.What this store procedure does is that it returns result set. The result will […]

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2003-08-07

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Group numbering

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An easy way to organize the data by groups of sequential numbers. This is very helpful for splitting up a large file into numerous smaller files. You can then create the smaller files by filtering for the row number per file.

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2003-07-09

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