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Script to simplify maintenance of sysproperties

This procedure will maintain the sysproperties table by wrapping system procedures:                • sp_addextendedproperty                • sp_dropextendedproperty                • sp_updateextendedproperty            The parameters are:                • @object    --    primary name of the object being to be maintained.                • @column    --    column or parameter […]

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2007-07-04

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List all indexes with keys, description and size

This script combines functionality of sp_helpindex and sp_spaceused to list all tables with individual indexes, their keys and description  (sp_spaceused cannot do that) and size in MB per individual index (sp_helpindex cannot do that either). Feel free to use and modify as you see fit. Hope it can help.

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2007-07-03 (first published: )

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Building Automated Backups in MSDN

We write this script due we needed to implement a backup strategy in some machines with MSDE located in remote offices.In that offices there isn't Enterprise Manager, so we send the script to the office and they just execute it.Comments will be welcome

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2007-07-02 (first published: )

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Find Nth Occurrence of Character Function V3

In the tradition of best practice & code improvement, a third iteration of a script that finds the Nth occurrence of a Target string within another string (Original author unknown, V2 author vextant).This version returns zero if an Nth occurrence is not found (similar to V1), but also provides the ability to search the string […]

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2007-06-29 (first published: )

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Get full name of a person

Person name may have these combination in database1. firstname only2. middlename only3. lastname only4. firstname + middlename5. firstname + lastname6. middlename + lastnameAnd firstname, middlename, lastname may contain null or empty string in data. but usee want to display Fullname without spaces then how will combine all.

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2007-06-28 (first published: )

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DeDuping Tables with Duplicate Records

The script is in three parts:1. A select statement to determine the number of duplicate records contained within the table2. The deduping process builds a temporary table called #Duplicates and uses it to compare duplicates across both similar tables whilst deleting records with multiple counts3. Final test of deduping with no records indicating table is […]

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2007-06-27

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Shrink databases

This procedure is used to shrink the databases. Many times we use shrink option to shrink the databases for backup. and we do it N number of times, when we take the back of databses or make free space of drive.instructions:- Follwo the step.1. run script.2. And execute the statement, exec shrink_databasesI m new, if […]

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2007-06-27

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DES Encryption/Decryption Function

There is a great article on SQLServerCentral on an Extended Stored Procedure http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/freeencryption.asp and this XP will undoubtedly perform better than my Function. However I had a need to encrypt a column in a shared hosted environment where I was not allowed to install XPs. Just copy script and paste into Query Analyzer

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2007-06-26 (first published: )

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Identity Defaults

What happens when I run this code?

CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
     id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
     somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO

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