Building Joins the Easy Way
Have you ever built a join graphically using Access or Visual Studio? Did you know that you can do this with the native SQL Server tools? And it's easy! Follow along as Dale Corey shows you how.
2004-04-26
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T-SQL
Get all Tables and Columns for each Database
This script will get the name of each database from master..sysdatabases, then use each database's Information Schemata to get the tables and columns in each of the databases. Several recent requests for assistance have used this to answer their needs. I ran it across 245 databases and pulled back 1.4 million results in about 30 […]
2004-04-15
1,336 reads
SP to search String in TEXT of SPs
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
511 reads
SP to find text in code objects in all user db's.
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
278 reads
Search For SPs which contain a specific String.
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
835 reads
Function to Return Age of a Person
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
399 reads
Function To Retrieve Last Index
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
2,809 reads
Tame Those Strings Part 8 - Quoting
Continuing Steve Jones' series on string manipulation in T-SQL, this article examines how quotations are handled in T-SQL.
2026-02-05 (first published: 2004-03-25)
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Funcs for Date Formatting (Like Oracle TO_CHAR)
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
961 reads
Validate Email
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
425 reads
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