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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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INSERTS that will STAY after a ROLLBACK is issued

Sometimes it is usefull to log stuff in SQL server while stored procs are running. If a long stored proc runs you sometimes want to be able to log a message in a loggin file. But what if a rollback occurs.... The message is lost as well.Here is a method to set up a seperate […]

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2002-10-01

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