sp_dbsize
I'm trying to repost the same script submitted on 7/9/2003 which didn't get posted completely for some reason.
2003-07-27
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Pad Number
A simple UDF for padding out numbers with a specific character (eg: pad 3 to show as 003).Usefull when you can only sort as a text item or for formatting purposes.Script is similar to the SPACE() function but allow the padding character to be defined.Usage:dbo.padNumber('string to pad', padsize, padchar)eg:SELECT dbo.padNumber('53', 4, '0') as testNumReturns:testNum-------0053
2003-07-25
206 reads
Zip Code Radius Search
Enter the starting zip code and the number of miles for a radius search and the SP will return all the zip codes within the number of miles specified.The data file can be found at http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zips.txtThe record layout van be found at http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/zip90r.txt
2003-07-24
2,494 reads
Generic paged data like MySQL LIMIT
This works, however code is creating a live temp_1 table in the database instead of using a #temp_1 temporary table because is just would not work.The next idea I had was to use a unique table name per connection for temp_1, but I would really rather use temporary tables.I am hoping some SQL guru's can […]
2003-07-22
133 reads
An alternative to self-joins
Oftentimes there is a need to retrieve different types of the same object (e.g. contacts). For example, in a Contacts database, you might have a Contact table containing many different types of contacts (employees, customers, suppliers, etc). Typically, a user might need to see a report of all different types of contacts for an order […]
2003-07-18
815 reads
Check if someone use a database or not
I manage quite a few hundred databases across the company. Time to time I get a question if I can check wheather a database is beeing used or not, and if it is, by whom?There are probably a 1000 ways to do this, but I've created a script for creating a scheduled job that runs […]
2003-07-15
2,660 reads
Group numbering
An easy way to organize the data by groups of sequential numbers. This is very helpful for splitting up a large file into numerous smaller files. You can then create the smaller files by filtering for the row number per file.
2003-07-09
228 reads
Make HTTP posts / request from within SQL
Use this script to make HTTP posts or requests from withing SQL. It uses the XML HTTP COM object.
2003-07-08
1,068 reads
sp_MSTableSpace and sp_MSforeachtable combined
The following stript combines two previous articals. sp_MStablespace was being demonstrated with a cursor. To reduce the code the sp_MSforeachtable could be used.
2003-07-08
544 reads
Script to Return Last Weeks Data
I was asked by a customer to create a scheduled weekly report detailing work that had been completed in the previous week (Monday to Friday) I figured they might lose the report or something might happen to stop the scheduler from running it, and I didn't want to have to modify my script to work […]
2003-07-07
148 reads
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