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Trigger Generator for data audit

This Procedure generates 3 triggers (for Insert, Update & delete). The purpose of these triggers is to keep a SIMPLE audit trail. Create the table and the procedure in the database to which you want to have the auditing facility. To include a table for auditing run the procedure with Table Name as the parameter.

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2002-10-09

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View all settings for all databases on your server

My stored procedure, sp_dbsettings, allows you to view, in a cross-tabular format, all the common options and their values for all the databases on your server.  Optionally, you can pass a database name as an argument if you just want to view the settings for one database (i.e., EXEC sp_dbsettings 'Northwind').  Otherwise it shows info […]

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2002-10-09

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Find and replace column constraints

I submit this script as an example of how one might go about generating 'Alter Table' statements that find and replace specific column constraints. In my case I had to find all occurrences in a production db of suser_name() as a column constraint and replace it with suser_sname(). This script is only an example and […]

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2002-10-08

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Get DB Table Details Quickly

Get All the Table Details in a Database in a Second By Running sp_table_info. This procedure will give the No. of row , reserved space , data space , index space and Unused space. Compile the Procedure in Master Database and access it from any other database. We can use it for a single table […]

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2002-10-08

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Database Identity property resetter

After going through development and test cycles it can be laborious to have to go and reset identity properties on tables (Yawn!!) So I wrote a script to do it. It has two parameters database name and identity start value. It basically checks the identity value with the number of rows in the table. if […]

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2002-10-06

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Change the probability of the pseudo-random values

The usual practice, when we need some test data, is to employ the pseudo-random built-in function RAND(). We usually use it to produce a random value in some range and it produces these values with the same probabilities. Sometimes we need more "realistic" data when some values are more probable than others are. In this […]

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2002-10-04

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Frequency of each field in table

This SP will generate the frequency of each occurrence in a field or for every field in a table. The syntax isexex sp_freqall , , , , for example:exec sp_freqall utems2000_2001, null,lastname, 100would return a table (with a field name and a count) for each field in the utems2000_2001 table, except the lastname field and […]

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2002-10-03

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BIT_COUNT() V

What does this return on SQL Server 2025?

select bit_count(null)

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