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Script to gather informations on databases

The script is design to gather informations on the growth of the databases per server (except the system ones).It is collecting in the 'databases' table of the master database for current information and in 'histodatabases' for old ones.It is possible to schedule the stored procedure.The column Serveur is only for gathering information on one server […]

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2002-12-17

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Automatically Restoring from Production

Came across a great script from Ken Kaufman on copying backups using xp_cmdshell.  Thought I'd contribute a script I wrote that builds on that to restore the latest production backup to a testing or development server.  In this case I routinely create all my production backups to a network share and then use that source […]

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2002-12-16

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UDF Luhn's formula-credit card number validation

This UDF will validate a credit card number using Luhn's formula.For example 49927398716 will return 1:print dbo.luhn('49927398716')print dbo.luhn(49927398716)11based on:Credit cards, validation and the Luhn formulabyEduardo Chaveshttp://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/validation.htmlAlgorithm converted to TSQL by Joseph Gama

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2002-12-12

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FTP files using SQL stored procedure

This stored procedure takes four parameters1)file to ftp2)server name or IP3)ftp login4)ftp passwordSP will ensure that local file exists before continuing,it will create and execute a batch file in order to push the file to the remote FTP server.--exec exampleEXEC dbo.up_FTPPushFile 'c:\temp\test.txt', 'server', 'user', 'password'

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2002-12-09

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