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Script to gain capacity information

Recently at my site we had a need to gather current capcatiy of all databases as well as table obejcts on our servers.  although there are some out of the box stored proceudres to assist in this effort as well as some schema objects, they mostly would return information on one database at a time.  […]

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2002-09-20

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Sp to enable, disable or list all Triggers in  DB

This one is For SQL 2000.This SP enable,disable or list all the Triggers in the given database.If enable or disable are specified, finds all the triggers of all the tablesand enable or disable them, After that, it list all the triggers with it´s current state.If List is specified, then it only list the triggers with […]

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2002-09-19

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Sp to enable, disable or list all Triggers in a DB (SQL 7)

This SP enable,disable or list all the Triggers in the given database.If enable or disable are specified, finds all the triggers of all the tablesand enable or disable them, After that, it list all the triggers with it´s current state.If List is specified, then it only list the triggers with it current state. I didn't […]

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2002-09-16

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Stored procedure sp_for

The sp_for procedure provides simple single-statement loop processing for T-SQL statements, similar to the FOR command in the C language or the DOS command-line utility by the same name.It's syntax is similar to that of the DOS command.  It takes an argument to represent a variable, initialize the variable, set an increment, set an end […]

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2002-09-13

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There is a table tmp_tab:

CREATE TABLE tmp_tab (
id int,
val int
);
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES
(1, 1),
(2, NULL),
(3, 3),
(4, 4),
(5, 5);
You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
    ISNULL(val, id) + 1
Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct)

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