Once devs are pushed toward using parameters, they get confused as to why their sp is not reused and has many compilations when in use.The reason is most of the time, that the parameters are defined with a wrong datatypemapping in the application or have different datatypes in a # of applications.I use this proc […]
2006-02-16 (first published: 2006-02-06)
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2006-02-15 (first published: 2006-02-13)
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This script has been on the SQL Server Central site for a while and has been revised a number of times. I enclose yet another revision that works with SQL Server 2005 (June CTP anyway) with much thanks to all those who have contributed to it in the past.Terry Grignon
2006-02-08 (first published: 2005-11-11)
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This script will dump most of the structure of a DTS package to a text file. This includes connections strings (note SQL Server connections have their passwords encrypted so the won't dump), tasks, steps, global veriables, etc.) The script is command line drive and should allow for the use of trusted or SQL logins. I […]
2006-02-07 (first published: 2006-01-30)
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Uses sp_ob by Saket Mittal to search all databases for objects of a like name. Examples: To search for a table named 'customer' : exec master..usp_SearchObjectsAllDBs @searchname = 'customer', @type = 'U' To search for a procedure named 'customer' : exec master..usp_SearchObjectsAllDBs @searchname = 'customer', @type = 'P'
2006-02-02 (first published: 2006-01-18)
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2006-02-01 (first published: 2006-01-27)
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2006-01-31 (first published: 2006-01-27)
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2006-01-30 (first published: 2006-01-27)
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I have been wonder how to get info (by query NOT EM) of all the Maintenance Plans and it's by effect jobs plus schedule. I also see people asking the same questions in different forums. Finally, I start exploring myself (with helps from others of course), here's the result.You can run it as a ad-hoc […]
2006-01-27 (first published: 2006-01-12)
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Updated for Permission assignment change 1/11/1006. Ok, I'll bet that you are asking, What is a Global System UDF, right? By Global I mean that the UDF is available from any database on the server. By System I mean that the two part naming rule does not apply to this scalar function. The UDF conversion […]
2006-01-26 (first published: 2005-06-10)
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