Registry Reading and Writing UDF's
These are little more than wrapper functions for xp_regread and xp_regwrite, but lets them be callable from views, if you desire to do so.
2002-12-18
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Scripts
Retrieve environment variables
This stored procedure lets you retrieve the environment variables from the server. you can pass in a partial name to get the variables that start with the partial match, or bblank to retrieve all the environment variables.
2002-12-18
569 reads
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 […]
2002-12-17
339 reads
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 […]
2002-12-16
667 reads
Differential Backup for DBs w/Full backup
This script will backup all databases that are online and have a recovery property of 'SIMPLE' AND already have a full backup. This script is set to run Monday thru Saturday at our site.
2002-12-12
227 reads
Do FULL Backups for New DBs(run daily)
This script will do a full backup of any new database(s) on the server that does not have a backup already. This script runs Monday thru Saturday at our site.
2002-12-12
254 reads
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
2002-12-12
561 reads
Weekly Full Backup
This script will backup all databases that are online (sql 2000). So if a new database is added you will get a backup. This is setup as a weekly job at our site (Sunday night).
2002-12-12
371 reads
ASCII table and UNICODE table
ASCII table and UNICODE tableYou can easily change the font of "SQL Query Analyzer":TOOLS/OPTIONS/FONTS
2002-12-11
517 reads
Create an Access database from TSQL using ADOX
This SP will create an Access database from TSQL using ADOX.Instead of Access, the Provider can be changed so that it will create *any* kind of database from DBase 3, Oracle, Excel, etc...
2002-12-11
360 reads
Blogs
Learning Tool – Deepstash
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Kerberos Authentication for Aurora PostgreSQL: Mapping AD Groups to Database Roles
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RegEx Functions I
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RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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