This set of procedures allow you to control simultaneous access to any resource you are using. It mimics the behaviour of a Semaphore in programming.A typical problem where you need this, is when you have a computational intensive procedure you only want to be started a limited number of times.First, add a record to the […]
2003-05-07
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This script enables you to return data from SQL Server's table without specyfing the name of the column .All you only need to supply is the column number, that you want the data from. In the example we want to chose all rows from the second column (categories table - northwind) Column number is based […]
2003-05-07
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For each user database remove all the freespace and truncate the transaction log. The script will use the system catalog to produce a list of databases. If you want to excluce a database add the excluded db name to the 'not in' list below.
2003-05-07
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This SP take 0 or 1 parameters. Execute without any parms and you will the sp_attach_db statements for all db's on you server. Execute with a database name and it will generate statements for stated db.
2003-05-06
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I used to list from sysobjects to get this information, but found the INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a lot easier.
2003-05-05
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Not long ago I was in a forum discussion when someone presented another way to get the date with time value of midnight by doing similar to thisDATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,@DATE),0)Which I find is much cleaner than any other option I have seen or tried myself. Seeing this I realized there are many other dates that can be […]
2003-05-02
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This procedure will give you the list of tables in the current database along with total columns in the table, no. of rows and the primary key(s) defined for the table.Mohit NayyarMCP, MCAD (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA
2003-04-30
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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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