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Bulk Insert proc to try out ur optimization skills

This SP can be used for bulk inserting data from an ascii text file onto a table. You have to change the structure, of the temporary table (ITEM_MASTER_TEMP) and the actual table onto which data is inserted, to suit ur needs . I wish you people workout this SP and try to optimize it as […]

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2004-08-26 (first published: )

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Find strings in text of stored procedures

Ussualy this kind of scripts queries sysobjects and syscomments like this:select distinct object_name(O.id)from syscomments as Cjoin sysobjects as O on O.id = C.id and o.type = 'P' -- search string only in stored procedureswhere C.text like '%insert into MyTable%'When the text of stored procedures, triggers, functions is over 4000 characters, it is saved in syscomments […]

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2004-08-26

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Foreign keys chain in a view. It may be useful.

I made this view because I had to generate a sql server database from  an Oracle database and I had to knew the order in which I import tables.This view, which may be improved, contains the foreign key, the primary and detail table, the column and it's position and may be useful in  many situations

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2004-08-25 (first published: )

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Search for a string in a procedure, trigger or fun

This is an extension of two previous scripts, this one will produce a list of ojects that contain the first parameter and not the second. The function works as a table so if the user wants to list only functions, query as: select * from fn_sys_searchobject('text1','text2') where object_type = 'function'

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2004-08-19 (first published: )

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