Last year I pulished a function ,named fnArabToEnglish,which can convert a arabic number to english ,such as turn 1234.56 to 'one thousand two hundred thirty four and cents fifty six'.Mr Rick send me a message with a bug of thefunction today,I get rid of the bug and publish the second time.I hope you like this […]
2003-04-30
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Very frequently I used to use sp_help to find column names, datatypes and length of datatypes. Sp_help outputs a lot of data which i really don't require to see. so I devised this script
2003-04-30
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2003-04-29
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This script is intended for SQL Server professionals that needs to have a quick snapshot from an environment with all relevant information about the databases. It's a compilation from multiple scripts, and works in SQL Server 2000.I think that works on 7.0 too, but may have some compilation issues.Don´t forget to see the section MANUAL […]
2003-04-28
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to figure out space used by tables. I have seen different versions of them .. here is a very simple effective one!!!
2003-04-28
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This is one example of how you can make backups with a date stamp for the file name. You can then periodically remove the files that are older than a specified date by simply placing a few lines of code in a job step and calling the supplied sp and passing the date from which […]
2003-04-25
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This stored procedure will list all user tables in the current database, along with the number of rows in the table. This version uses dynamic SQL to retrieve the number of rows, to overcome the need for an index on all tables. I use this to document legacy databases, I find that they may have […]
2003-04-24
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This script was designed to restore a backup of a production database from disk file, handle multiple DB files, move the files to new location, with new database name that is customized for the date of the backup, create any missing logins, and fix any user accounts that are orphaned by differing SIDs from the […]
2003-04-24
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I see scripts all the time on how to reindex all the tables in a db but they are usually too generic and may cause issues. For instance they typically cause the log file to grow very large and may even fill the hard drive. This is intended to be run off hours when db […]
2003-04-24
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This query calculates the running Total on Table without using cursors or variables.
2003-04-22
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