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Collation Checker

this a quick sproc I put together to do various collation checks. databases that have different collations from serverdatabases that have different collations of columns withindatabases that have column collations different from database collation

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2007-11-06 (first published: )

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Create Log tables and Triggers

Usually in business applications it is necessary to maintain the history of the data being modified for auditing purposes or for later analysis. Proven way to achieve this is to create a log table for each datatable with an additional column "Action" to indicate what the user has done on the data (either insert, update […]

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2007-10-26 (first published: )

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Find Table Usage

Creates a printable report of all stored procedures, views, triggers and user-defined functions that reference any of the tables passed into the procedure.Wrote this to easily list items affected by table changes when working in a fast-paced development environment developing a shrink wrapped product undergoing many schema changes.Split function is listed after sp definintion

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2007-10-23 (first published: )

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Find Column Name Usage

This procedure produces a formatted report to list which tables, views and table functions have a column of the specified name. This is particularly useful in systems that do not enforce referential integrity or when schema changes are being evaluated.

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2007-10-22 (first published: )

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MOM 2005 Datawarehousing Catchup

I wrote this script because our MOM Datawarehousing got so damn behind.Every time the windows Scheduled task tried to run to warehouse the dataout of OnePoint, it would puke because the SQL log would fill up. Thisallows you to start so many days out and it will increment it down by the number of days […]

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2007-10-18 (first published: )

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MOM SCDWgroom Enhancement

It might not be useful now, but if you ever wanted to downsize the amount of data that you keep in your datawarehouse, good luck.  This will help you do that.  This job is set to shrink it down to 120 days, but you can adjust it as you like.  Runs again in 5 day […]

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2007-10-16 (first published: )

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