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WorkingDaysDiff complementary UDF for DATEDIFF

We frequently have to work out a date based on a number of working days before or after a specified date, excluding Saturdays and Sundays.Attached is the script to create the function.  I call another function called fn_Midnight which was designed to help whe programmers get a date with no time portion without having to […]

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2002-10-22

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Format a DOS date as yyyymmdd

Do you run jobs that call BAT files where you wish you could include a formatted date stamp in the output name of an OSQL file? Well, you can using the DOS 'FOR' command. I named a variable FILEDATE and use it as: path\Filename_%FILEDATE%.txt (Note: A BAT file requires double %% in the 'FOR' command […]

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2002-10-21

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Get Number of Days in month

Have seen existing scripts to work out number of days in month. They tend to work out the month, and then whether it's a leap year.Another approach is to take the date passed in, find the first day of the next month, and then use Datadd to take off one day, ie: last day of […]

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2002-10-17

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sp_checksqlversion

How many times have you seen @@version return a number but failed to interpret what service pack it is? Although SQL 2000 gives a gift (SERVERPROPERTY) of querying a readable value, my script will remedy the puzzle and show more parameters such as CPU speed, memory, windows version, and installation date. The limitations are:1. MSDE […]

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2002-10-16

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Create And Execute Table Script (SQL Server 2000)

This SP will only work on SQL Server 2000 and can be placed in your master database. sp_CreateAndExecTableScript is designed to script one table and create an identical table. I designed it to use with DTS packages so that I can create an identical table with a different name, pump data into the table and […]

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2002-10-15

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Linked SQL Servers,  databases, and users Report

Fixed user protion of the script. Sorry had the test script mixed with prod. I was asked to create a report listing all of our SQL Servers, and the databases on them. I was also asked to list everyone that has access to each database and whether it was a standard, windows or windows group […]

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2002-10-15

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