This script will search a specified string in the current database and return all the tables with their columns containing that string. SET @search_str variable with the string to be searched (max. length allowed = 1000 chrs)
2003-06-07
432 reads
You don't have to try and decipher what instance you are running. The extended stored procedure xp_instance_regread does all the functionality of xp_regread and automatically knows which instance in the registry it should look at.
2003-06-06
1,049 reads
This a script which creates stored procedures that can be executed adhoc or set as sql agent jobs to check the recovery status and generate full, differential or transaction log backupf for each database if the database recovery status is set to full. We have terabytes of data and set all production databases […]
2003-06-06
943 reads
2 steps:step 1 => create a table in master database called BlockCheckstep 2 => create the stored procedure in master called BLOCK_CHECK @database_name varchar(20)What SP does:- it gets the spid that is blocked + info about it (like what it does at the moment it is blocked)- it gets the spid that acts as a […]
2003-06-05
729 reads
This stored Procedure can be used to force restores the database by killing all the process running over this database.
2003-06-05
417 reads
Retrieve SQL Server port number from registry. Useful for SQL Servers running named instances or non-standard TCP port numbers.
2003-06-04
648 reads
In your tenure as a DBA/developer, you've probably been asked to write dozens of stored procedures similar to this:CREATE PROCEDURE ContactInfo@ContactID intASSELECT c.Name, a.Address, p.PhoneFROM Contact cLEFT JOIN ContactAddress aON c.ContactID = a.ContactIDLEFT JOIN ContactPhone pON c.ContactID = p.ContactIDWHERE c.ContactID = @ContactIDBut there is a more efficient way to write such a query.....particularly if you […]
2003-06-03
1,420 reads
This procedure shows you the MAC number of your Enthernet card in a format exactly the same as when running: ipconfig /all from command shell. Updated thx to Larry A.
2003-05-31
148 reads
Customers, employees, etc. come and go. They get entered multiple times in inconsistent formats in databases.This simple script finds the duplicates across multiple formats and is easily modified as needed. It's so easy, my grandmother could do it. Oops! No offense Grandma.For very large databases, create and join two temp tables indexed on the namedatetring […]
2003-05-30
213 reads
This procedure displays all user-defined datatypes in all databases on a server. Another example of the power of dynamic T-SQL, this procedure dynamically generates SELECT statements for the systypes tables in each database and UNIONs them together so that they display in one recordset.
2003-05-30
166 reads
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DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!'; DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX); SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000))); SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded)See possible answers