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fnCharPad

This function allows the user to pass in a string / character value and it     will padd the value according to given parameters. The parameters are as follows:@ValueToPad = Value to be padded by function.@PadCharacter = Character used to pad a given value.@Justification = Justification format bit 0 - Value will be RIGHT justified […]

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2002-09-06

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spEasyBackup

Database backup made simple. You dont even have to pass any parameters if desired. It will all be handled for you.Capable of Net Send status notifications and writes status message to Windows event log.Side Effects:When not passing any @database params the the backup is done of the database where the proc resides. That means if […]

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2002-09-06

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Recompile all Udf's associated with a Table

When altering the structure of tables it is good practice to run SP_RECOMPILE against the table to force triggers and stored procedures to recompile. However this does not incude Udf's which also rely on the table, and this means the Udf's may fail when they are called. Run this script and supply the table name […]

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2002-09-05

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Show valuable info from sysindexes

This sp (sp_sysindexes) captures important columns from the table sysindexes and translates the numeric values into text. It shows the owner.object, the filegroup which it belongs to, the type of index, the total number of pages for tables/clustered indexes and non clustered indexes. It also shows the status, the indid and the type of object.You […]

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2002-09-01

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Divide big delete into several small ones

Big transactions cause the Tlog to grow.When you do a clean of a large table, the delete statement can cause a very long transactionSometimes it's necessary to prevent this.So we divide one big delete into several little ones.A table with call centre data gets +/- 1-mlj records a day. Every day we run a script […]

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2002-08-27

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Function to Return the Amount of Children in a Tree

Assuming we have the following table (that stores hierarchical data)  :CREATE TABLE [staff] (    [employee] [int] NOT NULL ,    [employee_name] [varchar] (10) NULL ,    [supervisor] [int] NULL ,     PRIMARY KEY  CLUSTERED     (        [employee]    )  ON [PRIMARY] ,     FOREIGN KEY     (        [supervisor]    ) REFERENCES [staff] (        [employee]    ))I ‘ll built a […]

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2002-08-23

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Check W2K Event log and send results to DBA

This is a simple Script that checks the W2K event log of choice and emails the results to the DBA. This script also uses the find command so you can search for strings in your event logs. It creats two scripts, the first script sp_EventlogSys runs xp_sendmail which executes the second procedure sp_EventlogSysquery and attaches […]

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2002-08-22

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Secure Cached Plans

The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?

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