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Dynamically Alter all your Tables.....

This script allows you to dynamically alter all the tables in your database.  In the script i am building up an alter statement that adds a 'TimeStamp' column a table.If anyone knows a better way to do this kind of thing, feel free to drop me a mail (jamie.moffat@infographics.co.uk)

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2002-07-04

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Index Locking Strategy

This script returns the index locking strategy informationfor all user tables in a database. It also generates the required TSQL statement to alter locking strategies if required. These statements require CTRL-C and CTRL-V individually into query analyser for execution. Results are best viewed in text only. This TSQL can be wrapped in a stored procedure […]

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2002-07-04

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VB6/ADO Stored Procedure Call Generator

Generates a VB6/ADO procedure prototype, procedure call, and ADO Command Object Parameters.Append calls.  To use, simply set the @spname variable equal to the name of your stored procedure, run, and cut and paste the output into you VB program.  The generated code may require some slight modifications, but this should save you a lot of […]

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2002-07-04

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Concatenate Rows without a cursor

You might come accross a situation where you want to retrieve the values of all the rows concatenated and stored in one variable. Here is the solution. Lets say you have a table called tblCustomerOrders which has CustID and OrderID. You now want all the OrderIDs for a particular Customer to be stored in one […]

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2002-07-02

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GetFileInfo2

An Improved version of GetFileInfo that now includes the space utilization of each datafile.  Provides more detail per file.  Predict when your files are going to grow!! Both data and log files. This script organizes information about the database files on the server.   A cursor is used to get the information from each database.  The […]

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2002-06-28

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RegEx Functions IV

I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:

EmailAddressID EmailAddress
7              dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
8              Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
If I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10
 *
 FROM person.EmailAddress
 WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i')
 AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)

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