Sample Script Header
Sample script header to use to describe a stored procedure. This is a piece of the one I use but needs modification for each environment.
2002-04-04
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T-SQL
2002-04-01
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2002-04-01
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Find Users in a Database
This script would help you find users, their logins, roles etc in a database.
2002-04-01
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Detection of Broken Forign Key Relationship
Under special circumstances, it could happen that database contains "orphan" records. Data in dependant table exists without it's "parent" record in a master table. It could be caused by a bulk insert operation without CHECK_CONSTRAINTS option, or by disabling foreign key for a while or adding a foreign key to a table that already contains […]
2002-03-27
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Cast Your Data
This article looks at the T-SQL CAST function and how it is used and preferred to CONVERT().
2002-03-18
16,852 reads
Rows count for each and every table in a DB
By using this script one can find number of rows for each and every table in a database. Just cut and past this script in your DB and excute. A stored procedure will be created as 'Get_rowcounts_for_eachtable'. If U excuted this stored procedure, U can get all tablenames and rowcounts for respected […]
2002-03-07
584 reads
List tables,stored procs & Scrips
list all user tables,stored procedures involving these tabels and the scrips of these procedures
2002-02-21
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UDF to strip brackets from phone numbers
I find phone numbers to be the messiest data that users enter. There are so many variations with brackets that I wrote this UDF to help clean up the data. Usage: SELECT Firstname , SURNAME , udfStripBracket(PHONENUMBER) AS BracketlessNumber FROM dbo.UserContact
2002-02-05
275 reads
SP to import to a file
Is a SP that imports a table to a file. You just put the table name, the path and the sa password and then you have it. It is important that it parse the table inserted (pubs.dbo.sales for example) and checks that the db, the table with the owner exists
2002-01-28
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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