This stored procedure is created to be invoked (in my case by SQL Server scheduled job), and will then create a tracefile to a specified file location (ensure that if this is NOT local, your SQL Server Agent runs on a domain account that has access to that drive. The Stored procedure will create files […]
2005-03-16 (first published: 2005-03-04)
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This Procedure will display info regard to when the last time database was used. How to use it--------------Exec master.dbo.Sp_LastTimeDBUsed 'pubs'
2005-03-15 (first published: 2005-03-02)
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Easily extractss the complete stored procedure call hierarchy from "sysdepends" table of SQL Server and represent it in a pseudo-graphical tree-view.The script uses a temporary table (automatically created/dropped) to hold children and parents of relationships. For representing the call hierarchy the table contains a level field (depth) and a field containing the "enumerated path" (using […]
2005-03-14 (first published: 2005-03-01)
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/*--Objective : To Write a given string on to a given file--Created by: Helen--Date : Jan 4, 2005--Execution : SELECT * FROM DBO.Ufn_WriteToFile('D:\Testing\dbcc.TXT','Hello world')*/
2005-03-10 (first published: 2005-02-21)
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2005-03-09 (first published: 2005-02-21)
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Here's an alternate way of removing multiple white spaces by using the REPLACE command.
2005-03-08 (first published: 2005-02-22)
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This script will BCP all user tables of a database to individual files. The file names are tablenameyyyymmddhhmmss.dat To executeusp_bcp_out_alltables 'database','path','server'You will need to change your default 1) path2) server
2005-03-07 (first published: 2005-02-23)
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This script creates a table based function that returns time dimension that would typically be seen in a data warehouse. The time dimension has aggregate values for week, month, quarter, half, and year.
2005-03-04 (first published: 2005-02-23)
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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 […]
2005-03-03 (first published: 2005-02-25)
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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 […]
2005-03-02 (first published: 2005-02-28)
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers