Find a text string in any column in a database
Find a string in any "string" (char, varchar, nchar etc) column in the database.
2012-05-18 (first published: 2007-12-19)
5,765 reads
Scripts
Payment due date function
Calculates the nth due date for any given date, while accounting for weekends.
2012-05-16 (first published: 2007-10-11)
3,805 reads
Effectively mapping primary key – foreign key relations
This script maps the primary key - foreign key relations regardless if the column names are the same or not.
2012-05-15 (first published: 2007-11-07)
2,990 reads
sa_help_rev.erse.sa.login
A script to generate a recovery script for setting your sa account back to the password it is using at the time of running this script.
2012-05-14 (first published: 2012-04-09)
1,000 reads
sp_Find2
Searches database for up to 4 keywords. It will search through SPs, UDFs, Triggers, SSIS packages, jobs, table names, and column names.
2012-05-10 (first published: 2012-04-18)
2,214 reads
2012-05-09 (first published: 2012-04-19)
1,371 reads
Identify Bad Characters in a Table Column
An interesting recursive CTE to list out the non-alphanumeric characters in a column of a table.
2012-05-08 (first published: 2012-04-12)
3,028 reads
2012-04-30 (first published: 2012-04-04)
687 reads
Log Shipping - How you can convert the secondary database into primar
This topic explains the log shipping if the primary database is suspected or corrupted and how you can convert the secondary database into primary database.
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-03-31)
1,019 reads
2012-04-26 (first published: 2012-04-02)
1,060 reads
Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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