Clear all user objects
This procedure will drop (with care) all user-defined objects: constraints, procedures, functions, triggers, views and tables. Used for re-creating database schema without drop and create database.
2003-04-07
148 reads
Scripts
Get File and Maximimum Size by Drive Letter
Utility Script to assist when you are thinking about expanding a database file. When Used in combination with srvinfo you can know just how far you can expand a file to keep the maximum file sizes from getting over the capacity of the drive.
2003-04-07
243 reads
Number of days for a given month
Use this function to get the number of days in a given month.Mohit NayyarMCP (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA
2003-04-06
428 reads
To retrieve Stored Procedure Parameters with Description
Use this procedure to get parameters for your stored procedure with data type,length, parameter position and also the mode of parameter (Input or Output). Can be used to populate the dynamic parameters for any procedure. Mohit NayyarMCP (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA
2003-04-06
945 reads
View Input Buffers for all SPIDS
This procedure, sp_AllInputBuffers, uses dynamic T-SQL to generate and execute the DBCC INPUTBUFFER statement for each server process (except yours). Perfect for performance troubleshooting situations, when you want to see what commands are being executed against your server. Also, a great example of the power of dynamic T-SQL.For the @exec parameter, pass 1 or leave […]
2003-04-04
675 reads
Date Only
This is a follow-on to info's script to strip the time portion of a datetime or smalldatetime, leaving only the date. I found info's script interesting! When I had to do this I converted the date to varchar and back again instead of to float. Seems to work fine for me.
2003-04-03
133 reads
2003-04-03
95 reads
Get rid of times as fast as possible!
This script shows the way, how to remove a time from datetimes.Do not move this code to UDF, it would run at least 6 times slower.
2003-04-03
104 reads
Get the Table Structure using a simple query
This query will solve problems related to Table structure. Using this query you can have the complete table structure for all the user tables with Table Name, Column Name, Data Type, and Null attributes of a column.You can run this script in Query Analyzer or make use of it in your front-end to give table […]
2003-04-02
5,178 reads
GetSizeOfAllTables
Gives you a list with name of all the tables, number of rows, row length of each table, total reserved space, space used by data, space used by index and unused space.
2003-04-02
203 reads
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ORDER BY alias
There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers