Get size in bytes of SP, View, Trigger, UDF or Rul
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
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Decrypt Stored Procedures, Views and Triggers
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
2,178 reads
Function to express numeric value in words
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
165 reads
Stored Proc with optional parameters
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
468 reads
123 TSQL functions
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
1,051 reads
Script out all linked/remote servers
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
10,727 reads
2002-12-05
233 reads
zPad() - add leading zeros to a number
This user-defined function converts a number to character format and adds leading zeroes to pad the field to a specified length. useful for displaying SSNs or other numeric fields where the leading 0's are significant but the field is stored as numeric.To use:select dbo.zPad(, )make sure your length includes an extra column for the sign. […]
2002-12-05
441 reads
Convert a number to words
This is a handy function that converts a number (integer) into its word format. This might be handy if you need to print a check formatted number in words. Currently it supports an integer but it would be almost nothing to convert to support a bigint or decimal.The components are1) a table named PlaceValue that […]
2002-12-04
397 reads
Create an OLAP Main DateTime table
The Microsoft FoodMart example uses a table of pre-calculated dates and times to join to a main Fact table.Here is a quick script to create such a table with dates from Jan1 2002 to end of December 2019.HTH - BillyWilly
2002-12-04
714 reads
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