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Proper Case function for DTS Transformation

This VBS function will convert a string into Proper Case (i.e. This Is Proper Case) during the execution of the DTS package.  Wrap the DTSSource function with the PropCase function and the result is a Proper Case transformationexampleFunction Main()    DTSDestination("Field1") = PropCase(DTSSource("Col019"))    Main = DTSTransformStat_OKEnd Function

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2003-08-05

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sp_dba_spacealert_dmo.vbs

This vbscript is used to alert and email receipients on Filegroup space usageOuput:  '% Space Avail. , Space Avail. Filesize, MaxSize, FileName, DBname, FileGroupThe process takes three arguments - SqlserverName , Threshold for percentage of available space to check ,Mininum MaxFileSize to checkExecute the script either from the command line or schedule the script via […]

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2003-08-01

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Display Database, File, Free and Total Disk Space

This script displays the size of each SQL Server database and database file plus the size of the next extension that will be added to each file. It also displays on each line the total and remaining free disk space for whichever disk each database file is stored on.The output is nothing fancy, and could […]

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2003-07-30

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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

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2003-07-25

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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

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2003-07-24

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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 […]

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2003-07-22

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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 […]

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2003-07-18

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Getting Database MaiL Profiles

If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?

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