I saw a script on here that outputs commands to the messages pane in Query Analyser. When run, these scripts output row counts for all your tables. This script does the same thing, but in one step.Tested on SQL Server 2000.
2007-09-25 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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This script was created for an Oracle to SQL 2005 migration. It creates a table, and then populates it with the record counts for each table in a given schema. (You will need to replace the xxxx text with your schema name for it to work). I prefer populating a table with this data, then […]
2007-09-24 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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Functuion Which returns splitted values from the string format specified in example
2007-09-21
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this is a quick stored procedure I put together when trying to find a log for a particular day (xp_enumerrorlogs returns the archive is as a varchar, so 1 is followed by 11, 12 etc rather than 2) sp_display_errorlogs with no parms returns output in archive id order. if the parm 'size' is passed in, […]
2007-09-21
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After migrating an Oracle database to SQL 2005, all the identity values were not properly set. This script goes through and sets them all to 1 greater than the max value in the identity column.
2007-09-21 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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In a recent project, I need to record audit trail for some tables (for Insert, Update and Delete).Using SQL 2005's XML datatype and the XML support it is very covenienet to use triggers to perform the audit trail requirement. I create one table (Table_Audit) to hold all audit trial data. One stored procedure is created […]
2007-09-20
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This is how I pull record counts for every user table in a DB... some of my tables are very large and this works for table with our without index very fast.
2007-09-20 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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This script will DELETE ALL constraints within the database that you define and in the following order: Foreign Key, Primary Key and then Unique Key.CAUTION:This script does not print out the ALTER TABLE statements, it drop the constraints immediately, therefore backup your database before testing or using this script. I ran the script below and […]
2007-09-19 (first published: 2007-05-23)
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I made some modifications to D Simmon's original sp. 1. I added dynamic feature to query tables in other databases (not linked servers) from one sp. I know dynamic sql isn't preferable in most cases but this is the route I took for this. 2. I enabled table name to be sent with owner qualification […]
2007-09-18 (first published: 2007-05-22)
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An easy way to created a quick record count of all the tables within a sql server database.
2007-09-18
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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