This is a User Defined Function that returns a 1 if date is a holiday else, it returns a 0.The holidays are:New years Day, MLK Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independance Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
2005-06-13 (first published: 2005-05-27)
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Makes a paged query with the sql parameters to build itand page parameters to filter.Add "No","CurrentPage","TotalPages" coumns to the queryto manage paging at user interface.The query Lose the identity column orderIt works fine for me!
2005-06-12
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A simple User Function which will guarantee always to return a value from a division without any errorsExample : GPDivNErr(@Val1 float, @Val2 float)
2005-06-10 (first published: 2005-05-29)
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A function to convert varbinary to hex string. Have you every tried to deal with varbinary via T-SQL? Passwords and SIDs are of this datatype. In Query Analyzer this datatype displays as hex string but under the hood it is binary. Try concatenating a varbinary to a string in a print statement and you get […]
2005-06-09 (first published: 2005-03-30)
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Hai raino,I saw ur query posted in SQLServerCentral.It was very useful.But if try to run the querydbcc traceon(3604)dbcc rebuild_log ('Training','Training_Log')Its showing the error=================Error================DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.Server: Msg 5105, Level 16, State 2, Line 2Device activation error. The physical file name 'Training_LOG' may be incorrect.DBCC execution completed. If […]
2005-06-08 (first published: 2005-05-19)
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This script originally created by Greg Larsen has been modified by me. This procedure is used to create the restore commands needed to restore a database using the lates full and any transaction or differential backups. The parameter @dbname was added to just create the restore statements for a particular database. Leaving off this parameter […]
2005-06-07 (first published: 2005-05-19)
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Initial analysis of a new source system can be quite time consuming to manually examine tables and columns to determine which even have worthwhile values in the first place. Running this script against the current database will generate useful information for all the columns of all the tables. Details include data types with varchar lengths, […]
2005-06-07
453 reads
This script will truncate data from all tables in a database
2005-06-06 (first published: 2005-05-13)
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This is a replacement script for the first IsDateAHoliday. The first one was too slow and inefficient. This one is much better. Enjoy.IsDateAHoliday is a User Defined Function that accepts a date and returns a 1 if date is a national holiday and returns a 0 otherwise.The holidays are:New years Day, MLK Day, Presidents Day, […]
2005-06-03
420 reads
The following procedure gets a TSQL program object(View/UDF/stored procedure) and a given stringIt searched object's source code for the string and returns the number of lines where a match is found.This is helpful when we want to search all our TSQL code for a specific table name, column etc. and investigate where it is referenced […]
2005-06-02
119 reads
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