Sometime one needs to perform an operation on all or selected databases on a server/instance. Microsoft provides undocumented store proc sp_MSForEachDb to achieve this. I use it for some clean up process as a SQL Job.
2002-11-30
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Occassionally you might want to convert a binary number into some printable string. This would allow you display some meaning fully numbers hex characters, instead of just some unreadable garbage. This script takes a binary field, of basically any length, and converts it, character by character, to a character string. The character string will contain […]
2002-11-07
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This simple script make a comparison between two given database. It compare: The table present in both database The data type, lenght, nullability, precision for each table. The object present in both database. The StoredProc is able to compare database across different server, simple make […]
2002-10-31
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This script will list the spaceused by all tables in a database. You can order the output by changing one of the parameters.It also provides totals
2002-10-27
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This script returns the latest package log for the DTS package specified in the @package_name variable. The interface for viewing DTS package logs through Enterprise Manager is limited in the fact that it doesn't provide textual descriptions of the values for the Step Execute Status and Step Execute Results. This makes it difficult to trace […]
2002-10-22
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Have seen existing scripts to work out number of days in month. They tend to work out the month, and then whether it's a leap year.Another approach is to take the date passed in, find the first day of the next month, and then use Datadd to take off one day, ie: last day of […]
2002-10-17
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This SP will only work on SQL Server 2000 and can be placed in your master database. sp_CreateAndExecTableScript is designed to script one table and create an identical table. I designed it to use with DTS packages so that I can create an identical table with a different name, pump data into the table and […]
2002-10-15
2,555 reads
What's this error:Arithmetic overflow error converting IDENTITY to data type int? It was a new one to me, but read on to find out what it means.
2002-10-14
7,008 reads
Ever needed to pause in a SQL script? Or wanted to simulate a long running process for testing? This stored procedure accepts an integer and pauses for that many seconds.
2002-10-04
1,234 reads
Quick and dirty script to generate the required SQL to reinstate permissions on each user object. This can be saved off for DR purposes.
2002-09-24
453 reads
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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