There are many ways to format dates, and rather that reinvent the wheel each time I've found it helpful to have a user defined function always available. As a function it of courses processes on each row, and to enable the most flexibility the formatting style is passed simply as a parameter. Year month and […]
2005-08-31 (first published: 2005-08-25)
491 reads
This script helps you synchronizing ALL orphaned database users to syslogins of the new database server. To run it, pass the target database name in on the first line.
2005-08-29 (first published: 2005-08-27)
707 reads
I made this Query because we fix databases localy on a workstation (we have no sql server) but when backup up the server they need to be deleted localy that could sometimes take a while.U can run this Query from the QA or ad it as a Job it's possible to run it from an […]
2005-08-26 (first published: 2005-08-19)
534 reads
This procedure will COPY an Enterprise Manager SINGLE DIAGRAM object between databases on a given SQL Server.This procedure takes in a source DB name, a Dest DB name, and the Diagram name.(Exec diagram_copy 'SOURCE_DB', 'DEST_DB', 'DIAGRAM NAME')This procedure DOES NOT have to be placed in either of the databases, you may run it from a […]
2005-08-25 (first published: 2005-08-22)
215 reads
This scripts creates a view which will returns all the indexes and columns covered in the index for all the tables in a database.It returns only the user created indexes. Removes the statistics created on table (where indid > 0).
2005-08-24 (first published: 2005-08-23)
221 reads
This script will remove all the spids from a particular and allow you restore a database to a different location. The path of dump can be local or remote. It is very useful for quickly restoring a copy of production for testing purposes.
2005-08-22 (first published: 2005-08-16)
984 reads
Pads a string on either with either leading or trailing characters. You specify the direction, the tolal string length and the character to pad with.Error conditions return null
2005-08-19 (first published: 2005-08-10)
2,087 reads
Pulls relevant information including col. names, keys, and the description (if the description field is filled out).This makes a good source for a data dictionary report.
2005-08-17 (first published: 2005-08-12)
509 reads
Ever need to disable some foreign key during the load of new data in some tables? (Eq: for a snapshot). The following just does that using a parameter (0 for disable and 1 for enable)
2005-08-15 (first published: 2005-08-05)
1,277 reads
This Procedure is used to generate the datadistionary for a database.It gives following columns : table_id, table_name,column_order,column_name, column_description Usage: Create the Procedure in the database where the datadisctionary need to be generated.Call : Execute Generate_getDataDictionary Return the result in Tabular format.
2005-08-12 (first published: 2005-08-05)
582 reads
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Make It Routine
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Finding Gaps in Sequential Data...
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
See possible answers