There are times when you have a limited range of ids and these have to be re-used as they become available.The script lists the first missing id in a table.Note that this script works best for a table with a limited number of rows, say sub 100,000I tested this on a PIII 500MHz 256Mb RAM […]
2002-12-09
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This script is designed to backup the database, and copy it over the network to our backup server. The requirement for this particular database is 7 days of data kept on the LAN. The share on the backup server is mapped to the Y:\ drive. The datename function is used over the datepart function for […]
2002-12-08
369 reads
Here are a couple of handy date functions that pretty much describe themselves. You can use these to figure out how many days are left in a month.
2002-12-08
629 reads
Purpose: To compare two strings with a supplied operator and return true if the strings evaluate to true using the operator provided. This is useful for stored procs to use instead of dynamic sql. YAY! Allowing for the operator and value to be passed in as parms. So that the user on the front end […]
2002-12-07
867 reads
This UDF and its equivalent stored procedure will return the size of a stored procedure, view, rule or user defined function in bytes .
2002-12-07
107 reads
This SP will decrypt Stored Procedures, Views or Triggers that were encrypted using "with encryption" There are 2 versions: one for SP's only and the other one for SP's, triggers and views version 1: INPUT: object name (stored procedure, view or trigger) version 2: INPUT: object name (stored procedure, view or trigger), object type('T'-trigger, 'P'-stored […]
2002-12-06
2,128 reads
There is a requirement here to take a number (such as 124995) and express it in words. We needed a function to do this, as it would be used in an existing document generation system.I have developed the enclosed two functions to do this. Note that the function does not, currently, cater for negative numbers, […]
2002-12-06
149 reads
Sometimes people want a Stored Proc with optional parameters. A lot of times people will use a coalesce for this. The problem with optional paremeters is that the query plan will never be an exact mach for that specific query. ( You never know what paremeters are filled..... )To solve this problem look at the […]
2002-12-06
458 reads
This is a collection of 123 TSQL functions for professional, academic or learning purposes. There are many conversions hexadecimal/octal/binary/Roman numerals, mathematical functions such as hyperbolic, logic and trigonometric. Combinatorial functions such as combinations, permutations (factorial), arrangements. Other interesting functions include turning a number into plain English, Morse code, EBCDIC and vice-versa, Levenshtein Distance (linguistics), encryption, […]
2002-12-05
1,037 reads
T-SQL which scripts out all linked and remote servers. Works on SQL 7.0 and 2000. Remote login password is only decrypted on SQL 7.0.
2002-12-05
10,707 reads
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I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers