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Finding Procedures with a specified text

This script will give the text of all the procedures with occurences of a specifc variable. Syscomments has a limitation of 4000 characters but this script overcomes that as it uses DMO. The output is generated in a text file. If you want the name of the procedure only. replace the line where it says […]

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2005-03-03 (first published: )

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Set Extended Properties for Every Table

Extended properties are a neat feature in SQL Server 2000 that let you set meta data for an individual object. This stored procedure is a baseline sproc that lets you set the properties of every object in a DB to a given value. For example, if you baseline your database at 1.5.0, you can set […]

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2005-03-02 (first published: )

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Load data from text file with variable columns

This script loads from a formatted text file (E.g. tab delimited) with variable number of columns using BULK INSERT. For instance, the file may have any number of columns and next load (seconds later) the same file may have a different number of columns. This script reads the first line (column names) extracting the names […]

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2005-03-01 (first published: )

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Correction to parsestring

The original function fails when a mistaken split char is being snet to the function.This can easly be corrected by adding an if to check the value of the @holdpos inside the loop before sending it to the substring functionif the value is 0 then break the loop

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2005-02-23 (first published: )

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Changing the AG Listener

In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?

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