This is a little script I wrote before I saw Steve Jones write up on Tame Those Strings Part 7. This is a slightly diffent approach. It will take a string up to 255 chars and case every word first letter upper and the rest of the word lower. This ain't the best way but […]
2003-02-20
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Our DBA and I (I'm a PowerBuilder programmer) decided to plunge head-first into UDTs. After reading the message boards, I thought maybe we could come up with a way to make them work. My solution is this stored proc. There are some assumptions made that work for our needs and some extra work that was […]
2003-02-20
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This is a script that creates Insert / Update / Delete and Get stored procedures for a specific table.It will only work for tables with a unique primary key.Have a look at what is does, and if you like it, Vote for it. Maybe there are tons of sprocs out there that perform the same […]
2003-02-19
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The script provided installs a Sql Server User Defined function which will perform a case sensitive string compare similar to the compare script submitted by Mike McManus. The script also includes test code which may be highlighted to test the function once it is installed and provides examples of usage.
2003-02-18
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This procedure refresh all views of current database in good order to recreate correct dependencies lost after updating views.This procedure just call sp_refreshview and uses temporary tableExecution of this procedure prevent errors in DTS Import/Export wyzard : Copy objects and data between SQL Server databasesexec refresh_all_views_in_order -- in current database and all dependencies are ok […]
2003-02-13
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Utilizing sp_dropserver and sp_addserver system procedures we will change local SQL Server name to a specified one, or, by default, to the WINS machine name. Just another utility in my DBAservice toolbox database.Notes:1.Tested in SQL Server7.2. In some cases it is necessary to rerun sql server setup in order to start the server after renaming. […]
2003-02-13
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MetaData_TableDependenceOrder Lists User tables in foreign key dependence order.I use this to determine data load order without having to disable foreign key constraints accepts a database name (required) and an optional comma delimited list of tables to filter the dependency list with. If tablelist is not passed, it returns all tables with a load ranking […]
2003-02-12
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When you want to compare two strings that may have case differences on a case-insensitive server, this script will quickly and easily do the compare for you. It returns 0 if strings are equal, 1 if not. Feel free to modify/reuse in your code.
2003-02-11
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If, like me, you are constantly restoring/moving several databases between multiple environments (development to staging, production to training, etc.), you know how tedious it can get to use EM, or to manually type out all those RESTORE...WITH MOVE statements in QA.Even having a saved script isn't the ideal thing, as you still need to go […]
2003-02-10
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I came across a situation where I needed to fix a vendors permissions issue. It required changing permissions on 338 views and tables, and leaving only 5 intact. Below is the Script I used to perform this task.
2003-02-10
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