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sp_CHARINDEX

Here's a stored procedure version of udf_CharIndex for SQL Server 7.Sample Usage: DECLARE @iPos INT DECLARE @nRet INT EXECUTE @nRet = sp_CharIndex 'W', 'Hello World', @nPos = @iPos OUTPUT IF @iPos > 0   PRINT 'found' ELSE   Print 'not found' PRINT @iPos  --Only uses on character.

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2002-04-22

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View/Edit ASP Script from From SQL Server 7.0/2000

Ever want to display (and edit) ASP code from the original .asp file?  (like PHP's PHPInfo() function).To setup:  * Just create a .asp with SQL Server connectivity.  * Change @IISHostNameWWWPath to match your servername      -OR-     if SQL Server is on the same machine, use the next     line instead. (see […]

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2002-04-22

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Change the User Defined Data type

User Defined Data Types (UDF) is one of the useful concepts in SQL Server. However UDF can't be modified after they are being used. You would have to remove your User Defined Data Type from each table before you can change it. This will be a big job under certain circumstances.This procedure changes all tables […]

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2002-04-19

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Script to list all user and roles

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 […]

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2002-04-18

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Write Reports from SQL to Disk (Even HTML!)

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 […]

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2002-04-18

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Decimal to Binary Conversion for event scheduling

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).    […]

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2002-04-17

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Kill all Connections

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.

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2002-04-17

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The New Database CheckDB

I run this code:

create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
What is returned?

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