2006-05-16 (first published: 2006-04-26)
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Scripts
Display Person Initials
Display a person's initials regardless if they have a middle name or not.Just pass in the persons name
2006-05-15 (first published: 2006-04-27)
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BCP OUT all table data in your Database
Data Recovery is vital. This script will cursor through your database and BCP OUT the table data to a directory specifically for each day of the week (in numbers - where 1 = Sunday and 7 = Saturday) in order to have table recoverability up to 7 days. The first step is to create the […]
2006-05-11 (first published: 2006-05-02)
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2006-05-10 (first published: 2006-05-03)
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Seach any DB object across database server.
This procedure will help you to find particular database object in all databases across database server. Like search gives you all objects from all databases whos name includes seach word critera.
2006-05-01 (first published: 2006-03-06)
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Server Backup History Report (updated 2006-04-11)
Server Backup History Report (Full DB Backups only) 1. lists all databases with no backup history 2. lists last backup for other databases includes Date, User, Size, Duration, Age, Finish Date & Location Includes system databases Excludes TempDB Excludes backup history data where backupmediafamily.device_type = 7 these are typically created by Veritas BackupExec Tested on […]
2006-04-28 (first published: 2006-03-23)
4,610 reads
To move all the table data from database to xls or
To move all the table data from database to xls or doc or txt files tableMany times we come accross to move data from database to external files such as word,xls or data files. Here is the script that move all tables data to specified files. Target file names are the table names. specify the […]
2006-04-27 (first published: 2006-04-05)
1,720 reads
Update a table column with a sequence number v3
Both Sachinvaishnav and Mark Chad have submitted scripts to populate a column with a sequence number. The first solution uses a cursor; the second uses the SQL 2005 ROW_NUMBER() function.v1:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=1643v2:http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=1664Since neither script requires a specific order for the sequence number, the same result can be achieved with a single UPDATE statement.
2006-04-26 (first published: 2006-04-11)
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Determine Distance Between Any Two Locations
This function allows you to calculate the distance in miles or kilometers between any two points on the earth. I created to calculate the distance between two zip codes but is can be used for any two coordinates for which latitude and longitude is known.NOTE: A database for the coordinates of any US postal code […]
2006-04-25 (first published: 2006-04-12)
1,331 reads
Create .NET parameters
This file will script out the code needed for .NET parameters. The idea is based on a script to create VB parameters which I found on this site but I updated it to create VB.NET patrameters
2006-04-24 (first published: 2006-03-10)
599 reads
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Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers