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User tables documentation - HTML format

It creates documentation for all user tables in a specific database. A server name/ database name was added on the top of the HTML file also a column datatype field was added to the HTML file. Now the @strHTML can have 8000 chars, before only 4000 - still for tables with a lot of columns […]

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2003-10-27

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compare table counts in two databases

Sound like old hat ... but this procedure accepts the two database names as input parameters; therefore, it must dynamically generate the SQL and use Exec(@command) to execute it.   It also reports on tables that exist in one database but not the other ...  Finally, it uses count(*) to provide more accuracy than using sysindex […]

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2003-10-24

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sp_toptables

Are you managing big databases with a lot of tables like SAP as I'm?Do you use sp_spaceused, as I'm?Do you want to know your n biggest tables as I'm?Then don't search any longer.I'm using this script every day for may maintenance jobs.I generates, like sp_spaceused, out of sysindexes the n biggest tables without any cursor, […]

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2003-10-20

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XML Encode UDF

I routinely need to retrieve and package query result sets in an XML package.  The built in functions supported by SQL Server 2000 are effective, but are often more of a pain than a help.  This routine can be used in a simple select statement to XML encode the contents of a column during the […]

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2003-10-14

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Question of the Day

Adding Bits I

I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest]
(
[insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()),
[a] [bit] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
My application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
    insertdate,
    a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO

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