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
262 reads
Scripts
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
575 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
375 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
527 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
370 reads
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'
2002-12-09
4,915 reads
To find the next available ID
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
309 reads
Copying Backups using XP_CMDSHELL
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
377 reads
FirstDayOfMonth() and LastDayOfMonth() functions
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
644 reads
Dynamic String Compare (W/O the dynamic sql)
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
876 reads
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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