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Search any object across db's ..made simple

I just saw a script on this site for object search across the db's. I have written an alternate version with sp_msforeachdb undocumented sp which is much simpler.This avoids a lot of code and dynamic sql.Replace "object_name" with the name of the object which needs to be searched across the databases.

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2006-10-17 (first published: )

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Rename DTS Tasks for Clear Log Text

This Script will create a copy of your DTS Package; append "_Renamed" to the end of the package name; and rename every task and step in the copied package to Task/Step_TaskType_DescriptionText_Sequence. The resulting package will lose all of it's text annotations, the layout will be the designer default rather than the original latout. It can […]

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2006-10-12 (first published: )

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Proper Luhn AddCheckDigit for any length #

Most of the luhn scripts assume that you are working with credit-cards and then IMPROPERLY calculate their luhn check-digit by starting at the left side (assuming that the core number is always 15 digits).  However, if you don't know the length of your core number, then such an approach will fail when the length is […]

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2006-10-10

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Pagination through SQL Script

Pagination of the records helps in faster and better display while generating a huge report or displaying hundreds of records on the screen. Performing the pagination through SQL script is some what tricky and an average developer finds it difficult to implement. Here I am suggesting the script to resolve the pagination problem.Use this script […]

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2006-10-09 (first published: )

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Date Time Range or Calendar Generator

This function returns a formated calendar table. It came in handy a few times for me, so I thought it may be a good contribution. There would be a few better ways to create this function if date-part were a valid data type. It is a pretty straight-forward function. You may edit it if you […]

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2006-10-05 (first published: )

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sp_what

This is a replacement for SP_who and modification of sp_who2. It will always list only active, nonsystem processes, and will list the number of seconds a transaction has been running for. Some transactions do not report a last batch time, so I forced a large value to display so you can see any issue with […]

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2006-10-02 (first published: )

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