Get a summarized report of all DataBases options
This SELECT will give you a summarized report for the options selected for ALL the databases on your SQL Server. It's compatible with versions 7 and 2000.
2002-07-11
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T-SQL
Generate Number Range 2
Alternate method for generating a rowset with all of the numbers in a specified range.
2002-07-11
419 reads
Concatenate Rows without a cursor
You might come accross a situation where you want to retrieve the values of all the rows concatenated and stored in one variable. Here is the solution. Lets say you have a table called tblCustomerOrders which has CustID and OrderID. You now want all the OrderIDs for a particular Customer to be stored in one […]
2002-07-02
1,084 reads
GetFileInfo2
An Improved version of GetFileInfo that now includes the space utilization of each datafile. Provides more detail per file. Predict when your files are going to grow!! Both data and log files. This script organizes information about the database files on the server. A cursor is used to get the information from each database. The […]
2002-06-28
562 reads
Querying Responses
Binary data can be stored as integers in a table. This article explains how to query an integer field to return the bits represented by the integer.
2002-06-28
4,659 reads
Function to return a delimited list as a table
This SQL2000 function accepts a delimited list of values as a string and the character you want to use as a delimiter.The function then splits these out and returns them as a table.The function assumes that the input string will contain unique integer values.Useage: - SELECT Id FROM fnSplit('1,2,3,4' , ',')
2002-06-27
582 reads
Storing Checkbox Responses as Integers
This article demonstrates how to store checkbox results as integers in a database...perfect for surveys!
2002-06-27
4,611 reads
Get File Info
This script organizes information about the database files on the server. A cursor is used to get the information from each database. The information is reported in Megabytes, including the next allocation from disk. No bells and whistles...and if I can find how dbcc showfilestats works I will add the amount of space used in […]
2002-06-24
1,119 reads
Time to Execute a script
This script can be divided into two parts one at the beginning of the script and the other at the end of a script. It parses the getdate() and runs datediff to give you an easy to read info on the time taken to execute a script. It is easy to get this info from […]
2002-06-20
680 reads
sp_MSforeachtrigger-Perform action on each trigger
This stored procedure loops through each trigger and performs an action on that trigger , like disabling or printing it. Please install this stored procedure in the MASTER database. For full usage instructions and advanced parameters please see the article about it at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/sp_msforeachworker.asp. Shortened version of the usage (there are a lot more parameters […]
2002-06-14
667 reads
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