Ever wanted to look at some ini setting from a stored procedure? I tried several forums and found that none of them has a script to read ini files from stored procedures.So here is my script, works in SQL2000. For SQL7, replace table variables with temporary tables.
2003-06-17
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This is a port of the SPLIT function from Perl (or VBScript). It works the same way: pass a string anda separator, up to 4 characters long (you can change this),and the function returns a table with the elements.This version trims leading and trailling spaces of the elements, just for convenience.Example:SELECT strvalFROM master.dbo.SPLIT('a and b', […]
2003-06-13
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Run this script against the database restored from other SQL Server database. It will solve the orphan users.
2003-06-12
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This procedure allows you to search through all objects in all databases on your server for words/phrases in your object code. Very handy for cases in which, for example, a column name on a table has been changed and you need to search your entire server for any sprocs/views/etc. that might reference it.Syntax: [EXEC] sp_FindCodeStr […]
2003-06-10
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- a simple and handy script that finds what differences might exists between the fields in your database that have the same name.I was wondering why my execution plans where different for tables with the same field names and the same indexes,statistics etc... because the syetem was converting my fields in the WHERE statement. - […]
2003-06-08
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This stored Procedure can be used to force restores the database by killing all the process running over this database.
2003-06-05
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I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers