2006-01-31 (first published: 2006-01-27)
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Scripts
2006-01-30 (first published: 2006-01-27)
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Get maintenance plans info and It's by effect jobs
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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Global System UDF to return ISO Date string
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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Get all user tables with size
Returns User Tables by SIZE in DESCENDING ORDERAdd TOP n clause in SELECT to get selective results (i.e. TOP 10 TABLES)
2006-01-25 (first published: 2003-06-07)
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Script Tbl Data to Insert Stmts. - Handles Unicode
Script Table Data to Insert Statements - Handles Unicode datatypes (nchar, nvarchar, ntext). This script works with SQL 2000 and has been improved to handle properly the nchar, nvarchar, and ntext data types for Unicode, as well as handle apostrophes in data correctly. Usage is to run the script to create the stored proc in […]
2006-01-24 (first published: 2006-01-11)
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Script to perform http(s) post
Post data as coming from an HTML FORM with METHOD=POST to an url and retrieve the result. The procedure uses WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1
2006-01-24 (first published: 2005-01-27)
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BASE64 Encode and Decode in T-SQL
This is BASE64 Encoding/Decoding in a T-SQL procedure. This code is provided as is, and is free to use and modify. Version 2 June 2005
2006-01-23 (first published: 2004-11-17)
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MS Word VBA to Format T-SQL Text as Rich Text
This VBA script was written for MS Word. It formats the text and sets default colors for keywords. SQL 2005's Management Studio now does this by default but the previous Query Analyzer did not offer this functionality. This is useful if you prefer to print and review code from time to time (not recommended for […]
2006-01-23 (first published: 2006-01-11)
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Verify that your backups are archived.
If you backup your databases to a disk file, you should make sure that these disk files are then being archived to tape. Without this, your ability to recover the database is compromised in the event of a disaster. This script will examine the "archive" flag on all of the backup files to make sure […]
2006-01-22 (first published: 2005-03-25)
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Adding new column with DEFAULT
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Adding new column with DEFAULT
Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers