This procedure will return useful columns information for VB developers. It shows column name, data type, size, vbtype, checktable (refferenced table) and flags: NoNull, IsIdentity, IsPK.Calling sample: mysp_columns 'customers'
2002-04-19
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Microsoft missed the code boat on this one. Use this function to find the true index of set of characters.
2002-04-18
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This script list all the users defined for each database on the server, it give the database name, the login name and the role defined.Its use full to have quick view of witch users are dbo on witch databaseEnsure that you have the result in grid in query analyzer, and just cut and paste the […]
2002-04-18
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Ever need to write reports out to a folder? I have found that creating output files are SA-WEET! (and easy too) The sample script uses BCP to create an HTML file.This process works well for reports that need to be generated nightly and take too long to run in real time. Use an SMTP mail […]
2002-04-18
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This procedure was written to create an event schedule where the schedule may have non-consecutive days. The input for the procedure is START DATE, END DATE, and DAYMAP The DAYMAP input parameter is a decimal number whose binary representation describes the schedule days over potentially a 4 week period (read from right to left). […]
2002-04-17
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Following script gives an example how to handle errors inside stored procedure with returning information about type of error occured
2002-04-17
1,686 reads
There are times you want to kill all the connections in a database. This would do that trick. This can be very useful when you replace a database regularly and some connections still exist so your automated restore fails. You can issue this command to kill all the connections before issuing a restore command.
2002-04-17
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During some maintenance task, you might not want any one to connect to a database. This script would help you do that. If you need to run this script, you might also need my other script to kill connections.
2002-04-17
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Sometimes, during test stage, you may need to truncate or delete all your tables in a database, without droping constraints, truncating and recreating constraints (DRI). You can use the TRUNCATE TABLE statement to removes all rows from a table without logging the individual row deletes, but tables referenced by a FOREIGN KEY constraint can not […]
2002-04-17
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This script will be helpful to only those people who arehaving identical database with different names.This script can be used to copy single or multiple tables from one database to anotherThe parameters @tname , source database and target database are important for the script to work. In the script below I have considered two databases […]
2002-04-16
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