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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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SQL Server Database File Sizes

This script creates a SQL_Statistics table in the Mater Database and then scroll through the existing databases on the server and gathers the Servers Name, logical device name, the file name and the file size and writes it to the table alond with a date time stamp.We run it once a month to gather the […]

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2005-02-22 (first published: )

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Backup All or one DTs Package(s)

The script runs using vbscript code. It requires the user to enter parameters and run the script. The script uses both trusted and standard connection. The script also generate a log file each time it runs. Copy the code below and save it with .vbs extension.

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2005-02-21 (first published: )

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BIT_COUNT() V

What does this return on SQL Server 2025?

select bit_count(null)

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