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Script to generate replication procs for article

This script is basically a front-end for the sp_"scriptproc" stored procedures that ship with MSSQL.  This will allow you to create ALL of your procs (INS, UPD and DEL) on the fly using the article name instead of having to first search for the article ID.  It also uses sp_scriptdynamicupdproc where appropriate.  This facilitates quick […]

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2007-04-23 (first published: )

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Refreshing Views and Recompiling Stored Procs

When a table is modified by changing the order of fields or changing field type or adjusting field sizes etc, some of the dependent views (or views on views on views :)) may become invalid as they store some metadata in order to run more efficiently. These views would need to be refreshed with new […]

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2007-04-20 (first published: )

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Who's Blocking

A quick little standalone script that tells you what process is blocking and what processes the blocking processing actually blocking.When running this script in QA, change your output to "Results in Text" ( CTRL-T ).  Utilizes the blocking info in sp_who2 combined with dbcc inputbuffer and a little cursor to wrap it all up.  Formatting […]

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2007-04-19 (first published: )

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Dynamic SQL inside User defined functions

The script details about the workaround for using Dynamic SQL inside T-SQL user defined functions. Basically, T-SQL doesn't allow developers to perform/write any actions/statments which would affect the database's state. As a key note factor for any migration process from oracle to sql server developers need to do a work around on using execute immediate(for […]

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2007-04-18 (first published: )

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What's Running

spWhatsRunning does just that.  It tells you exactly what is executing on your server.  By combining the output of the sp_who and dbcc inputbuffer, this script will tell you exactly whats being executed.  DBCC INPUTBUFFER will tell you the same thing, but by the time you get the spid, the offending process may be gone.  […]

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2007-04-17 (first published: )

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UDF for date ranges around a given date (updated)

UDF - SQL 2000 and higherThis function returns an 18 row table of date ranges around a given date.The ranges are: Day, Week (Sunday to Saturday), Month, Quarter, Half Year, Year.For each range there are 3 values: Previous, Same and NextExample of usage:Joined to an orders table:Select r.period, count(o.order_id)from orders oinner join dbo.ufn_date_ranges('2003-04-01') ron o.order_date […]

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2007-04-12 (first published: )

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