Creating Job Backup
This Stored Procedure create backup job for all user databases. You can customize SQLAdmin operator.See Creating Backup Devices
2002-09-12
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FASTCOUNT() User-Defined Function (SQL 2000 only)
SQL Server's COUNT() function is a slow and expensive way to count a table's rows because it scans the entire table or index. FASTCOUNT(), which I created, is much more efficient for this purpose - its only drawback being that it may return inaccurate results if a nonlogged (e.g., bulk) data modification operation was recently […]
2002-09-10
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For SQL 2000.Scan all indexes for fragmentation
This script creates an error message with a valid error number, and alert associated with the error message. (everything when it doesn't exists). Then captures all the user indexes in the database and executes DBCC ShowContig for each one. It calculates the % of fragmentation on leaf level and fires the alert when is fragmented.Then […]
2002-09-10
2,333 reads
Changing Collation
There's only one parameter wich is the collation that we want to change to.If no collation is defined uses the default collation.
2002-09-09
2,117 reads
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 […]
2002-09-06
296 reads
fnStripChars
This function strips a list of characters from the value passed in. Useful for cleaning up input data and removing unwanted characters for streamlined data storage.
2002-09-06
360 reads
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 […]
2002-09-06
588 reads
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 […]
2002-09-05
379 reads
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 […]
2002-09-01
3,747 reads
Using the DATEDIFF function to select rows
I keep seeing people using CONVERT to convert a date to a varchar in order to do comparison or search queries. I haven't seen a situation yet where DATEDIFF can't be used.
2002-08-29
1,248 reads
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RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers