The stored proc FindObjByColumn_sp, while simple, is extremely useful when making database changes or for any reason that you need to find any tables and stored procedures that contain a particular column. It searches the system tables of a database to find the object containing the column. In addition, the procedure automatically adds a wildcard […]
2002-10-31
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Use this script to create a warm standby database server for all your user database. This new version has a new feature to allow the standby database to be in a ready-only mode so that users can access it. You can change the job schedule to suit your requirement. One bug has been fixed that […]
2002-10-31
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This simple script make a comparison between two given database. It compare: The table present in both database The data type, lenght, nullability, precision for each table. The object present in both database. The StoredProc is able to compare database across different server, simple make […]
2002-10-31
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This is not an original script - but one I modified from an article by Darren Green on databasejournal.com (02/21/2000). His original script changed the owner of all DTS packages owned by @old_owner to be owned by @new_owner. This script will change the owner of the most recent version of a specific DTS package (@p_name) […]
2002-10-29
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Here is another Number of Days in the Month function for SQL Server without the use of Case or if statements. It uses the DATEPART and DATEADD built-in functions.
2002-10-28
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The script will do the following:- build a ten digit phone number regardless of input column size.- Ignores extensions- Ignores leading 1, as in 1(800)...- Ignores most special characters or spaces- converts literals to digitsIt can be easily convert to a UDFEnjoy.C. Z. Ovits
2002-10-28
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2002-10-28
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Using the sp_help to get a table structure is very cumbersome. First, in order to print it you have to use"Results in Text" not "Results in Grid". Second, the results are very wide screen-wise and very hard to read or print. Third, you do not get the size or number rows with the same request.This […]
2002-10-28
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This script will list the spaceused by all tables in a database. You can order the output by changing one of the parameters.It also provides totals
2002-10-27
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Recently I saw here a script that returns the number of days of the month however I made my own script and I think that it's better elaborated. It's true that this is my opinion, but here it's. Evaluate it yourself.print dbo.f_days_in_month('2000-02-21')
2002-10-26
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By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
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If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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