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Search All Columns in All Tables for a string

This procedure can search all columns in one or all tables for a specified string. Prints out the TableName.ColumnName that the string is found in...--     Example Calls--     EXECUTE spFindTextInColumns MyTable, 'tcart' --search a specific table--         --     EXECUTE spFindTextInColumns default, 'tcart' --search all tables BUG FIX : (2003/01/20) Changed SELECT @columnName […]

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2003-01-09

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Updating Changed Passwords for warm Servers

One of the challenges weve faced is changing passwords in a warm server to reflect changes made to the live server.  The initial transfer of users and passwords was performed by the   sp_help_revlogin   script provided by Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246133.  The difficulty with this script was once the users are in place, you cant sync changed […]

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2003-01-08

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CSV Lists of Columns in Different Formats

This script creates comma separated lists of columns in different formats. These lists can be copied and pasted into other T-SQL statements.  The lists are formatted as: a simple list of column names, a list with the column names as declared variables (@ + column name + data type), a list with column names as […]

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2002-12-26

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Dynamic DBCC DBREINDEX

This script uses sysobjects and sysindexes to ID all tables in a database that are indexed, and/or clustered.  It then runs through per table all of the indexes and runs DBREINDEX with their fillfactor.  This eliminates having to maintain a list of all indexes and having code fail when it tries to modify indexes that […]

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2002-12-19

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Net Send

Yee Haa, as if we couldn't annoy our users more with message boxes, emails, and other friendly pop ups ;P here comes the net send. Has a test for success to determine if the send worked. If an invalid name is entered it can take a bit to fail, so don't use this from a […]

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2002-12-18

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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters

When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?

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