2009-03-23 (first published: 2009-02-17)
994 reads
Scripts
2009-03-19 (first published: 2009-02-17)
1,463 reads
DROP all stored procedures
This code will drop all stored procedures made with splog. With minor modification it will also drop all functions and sp not made with splog.
2009-03-13 (first published: 2009-02-12)
1,048 reads
2009-03-11 (first published: 2009-02-13)
1,795 reads
Procedure Class Generator
Dynamically creates a VB.NET class from parameters in a SQL Stored procedure.
2009-03-09 (first published: 2009-02-16)
1,071 reads
Backup on the fly based on previous backups
This script uses the system backup history to run a differential backup and place it in the directory of the last full backup.
2009-03-06 (first published: 2009-02-12)
653 reads
2009-03-04 (first published: 2009-02-16)
1,286 reads
Return X Day of Month
This function will return the first, second, third, fourth or last day of a given month.
2009-03-03 (first published: 2009-02-10)
1,225 reads
TEXT/NTEXT Find and Replace
Find And Replace any string, in the entire table with this function. Parameterized for easy use.
2009-02-26 (first published: 2009-02-09)
908 reads
Default Trace Load of All 5 Files
The default trace keeps the last 20 meg of info, and a max of 5 files...This loads all 5 files into a table so it can be reviewed.
2009-02-25 (first published: 2009-02-07)
1,280 reads
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers