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Query MSDB for Search String

TSQL:Procedure to Lookup JobsJack Donnell,jack@JackDonnell.com Have you ever kept altering the same query to look for different items in you database?I took a hint from MS with all the sp_help and other system stored procedures and made a two scripts this one to query for databases scheduled tasks or jobs as they are now called.Here […]

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2002-06-16

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List all Databases and Last Full Backups

This script will create a procedure to list all databases on the server (except tempdb), the last time the database was backed up (database backup, not log backups), and a comment which could be customized.  For my purposes, I flag any database which hasn't been backed up in the last week.  This provides a quick […]

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2002-06-14

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Scan stored procedures in all databases

I wrote this for the developers because they were always asking me to find all of their stored procedures that did X.It scans through the syscomments text in each database looking for the requested string.  User must have read access on the syscomments and sysobjects tables in each database.

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2002-06-14

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sp_MSforeachfk-Perform an action on every FK

This stored procedure loops through each user defined Foreign Key and performs an action on that FK, like disabling them or printing its name. Please install this stored procedure in the MASTER database. For full usage instructions and advanced parameters please see the article about it at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/sp_msforeachworker.asp. .Shortened version of the usage (there are […]

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2002-06-14

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sp_MSforeachsproc -Perform an action on each sproc

This stored procedure loops through each view and performs an action on that stored procedure, like printing the records or running an sp_help. Please install this stored procedure in the MASTER database. For full usage instructions and advanced parameters please see the article about it at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/sp_msforeachworker.asp.Shortened version of the usage (there are a lot […]

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2002-06-14

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sp_MSforeachtrigger-Perform action on each trigger

This stored procedure loops through each trigger and performs an action on that trigger , like disabling or printing it. Please install this stored procedure in the MASTER database. For full usage instructions and advanced parameters please see the article about it at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/sp_msforeachworker.asp. Shortened version of the usage (there are a lot more parameters […]

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2002-06-14

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sp_MSforeachview - Perform an action on each view

This stored procedure loops through each view and performs an action on that view, like counting or printing the records. Please install this stored procedure in the MASTER database. For full usage instructions and advanced parameters please see the article about it at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/sp_msforeachworker.asp. Shortened version of the usage (there are a lot more parameters […]

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2002-06-14

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System Lock Snapshot

This script captures the current system lock in a temp table, then builds a temp translation table for database and object id by iterating through all of the databases.  It then produces a report by joining the two tables.For better performance, you could make the translation table perminante and only update it when you are […]

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2002-06-14

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Trigger to replace strings in the Text field.

I was looking over internet trying to find a SP or UDFto replace string accourences in the Text fields, I didn'tfind any so I created ths trigger, may be it will be usefull as example. Be aware on the big documents it can be time consuming.All it does is replacing < and > substrings of […]

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2002-06-14

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Comma Separated List Of Field Names

Returns a single row with a single column containing a comma-separated list of the field names for a specified table. I find this very useful when doing INSERT statements where I have to list out each field being inserted. I simply bind this proc to a hotkey and use the hotkey to get the comma-separated […]

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2002-06-12

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Question of the Day

Getting the Average

I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.

salesperson commission
Brian       12
Brian       16
Andy        7
Andy        14
Andy        21
Steve       20
Steve       NULL
All the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
     , AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
 FROM commission
 GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve?

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