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Get DBObjects with Specified Owner

A database can have objects with multiple owners. The script will give you the list of all the TABLES, VIEWS and PROCEDURES having the specified owner. Just input the owner name and it will give you the list of all the Objects with that owner. This scope of the script is limited to the TABLES, […]

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2007-06-21 (first published: )

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Non repetable random number generation script

Some time back i had the requirement for a SP which will give non repeatable random numbers with in a range. Following SP accepts a range and gives the random numbers. Once the numbers are exhausetd NULL, will be the out put. In this case user can restart the random number generation by passing 1 […]

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2007-06-20 (first published: )

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Add Enterprise Manager registrations quickly

Use this Perl script to add Enterprise Manager registrations from a text file. The text file should contain three fields seperated by spaces. The first two fields are the server groups you want to create, and the last is the server name. ex...Production Accounting ACTPRSQL01QA Accounting ACTQASQL01The script also goes out and registers all SQL […]

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2007-06-19 (first published: )

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Use of regular expressions in TSQL

This script creates 2 new system functions :fn__testregexp(@String,@Pattern) returns int    execute the method test(@String) on the regular expressions @Pattern    returns :        0 : no match        1 : match        null : one of the parameters was null        anything else : error from sp_OA procedure        fn__replaceregexp(String,@Pattern,@Replace) returns varchar    execute the method Replace(@String,@Replace) […]

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2007-06-14 (first published: )

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SP_WHO_3 Powerful Filtering/Sorting Very Efficient

Hello,I posted this a while ago to several web sites. Someone found an obscure bug in it and I fixed it (newest script attached below). When I posted it to you last time, it didn't show up in any of the categories that I had checked; hmmmm? However, when I searched google, you have it […]

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2007-06-13 (first published: )

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ActiveX - Clean Up Unused Connections

This ActiveX Script runs in DTS Designer and will clean up all unused connection objects. This allows you to rename connections at will by selecting "New Connection" and typing a new name. It also allows you to copy and paste connections then rename them. Then you can cleanup leftover connections when development is complete.

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2007-06-12 (first published: )

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Finding Trailing Spaces

I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:

CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName
1          Steve        Steve               
2          Andy         Andy               
3          Brian        Brian               
4          Allan        Allan               
5          Devin        Devin               
6          Steve        Steve               
7          Sally        Sally
I want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT 
       CustomerID,
       CustomerName,
       PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName);

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