Search for text in procedures (no cursors)
This function returns a list of all procedures and functions that contain the given text value. It has an additional parameter to exclude procedures that contain a second text value.
2004-04-08
252 reads
Scripts
Write Text File
Adapted from Rodrigo Acosta's script which exports to a text file the text of SPs. Parameters are the table/view name (may include a WHERE clause) , the output file path/name, and an optional list of fields (may include user-defined functions,cast/convert,etc..., the default is '*').
2004-04-06
635 reads
Backup All Databases
This script will back up all databases (other than those listed to not be included) to a given disk location. It can also be modified to back up transaction logs, or to use a dump device instead of a disk location.
2004-04-02
1,089 reads
SP to find text in code objects in all user db's.
This script creates a stored procedure which helps to find text in all of your code objects in all your databases. It searches the code of SP's, UDF's, views, triggers, and it searches in all databases.Output is a result set with DbName, ObjectName and ObjectType.Advantages are- works reliable also with source codes longer than 4000 […]
2004-03-31
289 reads
Script wich exports to a text file the text of SPs
This script exports to a text file the creation text of the stored procedures of your database. If you want, you can change the script to export the text of views or functions.
2004-03-29
551 reads
Script object or user permissions
script useful for copying permissions from one database to another like test to production.Tim Stahlhut SEE sp_helprotect for params meaning Note: If you wish to script system object permission remove 'IsMSShipped' block of code. Fixed missing code & re-formatted it to look better.
2004-03-26
361 reads
Search For SPs which contain a specific String.
This Stored Procedure is for Searching all the user defined Stored Procedures in a database for the existence of a specified string . This is especially useful when you have changed some Column name and want to Find the Column Name in all the Stored Procedures where it is used, so it will return you […]
2004-03-26
857 reads
Function To Retrieve Last Index
This Function Enables the user to retrieve the Last Index of the character/string in a predetermined string.Eg If you want search for the Last Occurance of 'SQL' in 'SQL SERVER2000 USES ANSI SQL' thenSELECT dbo.LastIndexOf('SQL SERVER2000 USES ANSI SQL','SQL')will return 26.Tested Only in SQL SERVER2000
2004-03-25
2,830 reads
Function to Return Age of a Person
This Function is a small script to retrieve the age of person based on date of birth to a particular date.Eg.select dbo.GetDateofbirth ('01/01/1975',GETDATE())RETURNS29Years 2Months 24Days that is the age.TESTED only on SQLSERVER 2000
2004-03-25
424 reads
Funcs for Date Formatting (Like Oracle TO_CHAR)
Function RJZeroN is used for formatting integer numbers as right-justified strings with leading zeroes according to a specified size (max 20 characters which will hold the largest BIGINT value). A NULL value is returned if the formatting cannot be done according to the values specified.Example: Format a 3-digit number as a 7-character numberstring with leading […]
2004-03-24
979 reads
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers