Simple Procedure to rapidly rebuild a copy of Development TEST1 DB...Lovely and fast when Tard Developers have highlevels of access and you just need them out to restore / refresh a db...KILL KILL KILL !!! Remember to reset / resolve users and permissions after this is run. I use a DTS RUN statment with a […]
2003-12-18
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T-SQL String Function: Returns passed date formatted using passed criteria. Format criteria similar to Visual Basic. Sorry, prior script had a reference to one of my internal UDFs :(.
2003-12-17
221 reads
This procedure queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules(if applicable),how often the interval occurs(every X hours,min.,days,etc), the maximun duration, last duration,last status of the job.This is a script that I modified and added to from M.Pearson.
2003-12-16
397 reads
T-SQL String Function: Returns passed date formatted using passed criteria. Format criteria similar to Visual Basic. Saw that I could correct it, so corrected 3/8/04
2003-12-09
167 reads
This function will strip all extra spaces, CRLFs and tabs from a SELECT statement, from the SELECT keyword to the End of the Order By clause, then reformat the statement to put all keywords at the left margin and subordinate clauses indented by ONE Tab. There is an example of a SELECT statement that came […]
2003-12-07
165 reads
This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all used fields), stored procedures (including used fields and parameters), database users, database settings and server settings.This script has been cobbled together from several others found on this site, so they deserve the recognition, not me 🙂Simply execute it […]
2003-12-05
676 reads
There are plenty of scripts out there that find duplicate indexes, but they all seem to use cursors. I didn't want to use a cursor so I ended up creating a few that could handle the duplicates and decided to share this one. This will return the table name and the names of the two […]
2003-12-04
2,739 reads
This script is similar in style to my previous script SQL Server Job Status Report, but this script generates an HTML report on the size of all databases on a specific SQL Server instance. The report consists of several sections: a summary report on the size of all databases; a summary report on the size […]
2003-12-04
1,148 reads
In my company's web site there are search pages for allowing users to search info on one or more tables (or in my case a select with 10 joins). Often the requirements for these search pages change over time with users either requesting additional columns to search or remove columns that are no longer useful. […]
2003-12-03
243 reads
Returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a character expression that OCCURS( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OCCURS( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OCCURS( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.
2003-12-03
103 reads
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