String Parsing
User Defined function to parse a string with known delimiters and return back the substing in the position.Takes string,delimiter and position as parameters. Can be used directly in TSQL code.
2003-03-27
337 reads
Scripts
T-SQL to Export Table Structure to a script
When you want to export a table structure to T-SQL, everyone always points you to Enterprise Manager, or a script that calls BCP.Sometimes, a developer either doesn't have access to those tools, or just doesn't want to use them (like me) out of spite.I made this T-SQL because it was educational, and noone else seems […]
2003-03-26
4,045 reads
Find Trigger Status
This procedure helps to find the status of all the trigger (i.e Enabled/Disabled) for a given database. If no database name is provided then it uses the default database.This script is tested on SQL Server 7.0/2000 only.
2003-03-25
291 reads
Shrink Multi-File Databases
This stored procedure shrinks all database files within the current database, including the unused portion of transaction log. This procedure is especially useful for multi-file databases.
2003-03-24
211 reads
DB Reindex all Databases
This script reindexes all tables in all databases. Execute the script with the desired fill factor and it will do the rest. There is an option to exclude databases from the reindex. This makes it easy to reindex all newly created databases. Great for the Development environment when Developers are creating database all the time.
2003-03-23
1,973 reads
Jscript to obscure emails from robots in HTML
This script will obscure email addresses from robots even ones that ignore the tags to not snoop. Usually robots that ignore the tags, and the robots.txt file are used by spammers. They pull down the SOURCE of your page and scrape the email addresses from them. This script breaks the mail href into its base […]
2003-03-23
108 reads
Convert Interger to Binary String for Bit Masks
The three functions here can be used to store Bit Masks as Integers.These are functions to convert an integer into a binary string. This can be useful if you store Bit Masks in your database as integers.For example .. '00000000000011111001001001110011' to 1020531Each Bit could represent an ON or OFF value. One integer columncould be equivalent […]
2003-03-21
4,029 reads
Statistic of SQL-Server - Daily Version
A Procedure gather Server Statistic per day or per run this Procedure.Output: Table TBL_SERVERSTATISTICS. You can use the results to analyze SQL-Server performance problems. You can analyze what changed after install new hardware or software, add or remove Application/DB/File/Index/Table etc.Recommendations: Run a Procedure once every day.Warning: If sql-server restarted after last run a Procedurecurrent running […]
2003-03-13
1,059 reads
Weekly Reports Made Easy
Each week you are required to run various reports based on table entries made during the week preceding latest Sunday. Use this SQL7/2000 procedure (can be a UDF in SQL2K) to retrieve the latest midnight of a specified day of the week as illustrated below: Declare @StartDate datetime, @EndDate datetime Exec DBAservice.dbo.uspGetLatestWkDayMidnight @pDate = '1998-05-06', […]
2003-03-13
320 reads
Load Backup History from Backup File
This script creates a stored proc to verify all backups in a media set and load their history into MSDB. I use this frequently when I get backup files from clients and want to use Enterprise Manager's intelligent restore selection to quickly get the database restored on a test machine.
2003-03-11
309 reads
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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