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DTS-Less and Jobless Approach to Table Freshness

How about getting the data when the table data is first queried?  The following script checks to see if the specified table (@MyTable) has been updated today.  If so, just return the data found.  If not, then get the data from a "fresher source".  Great for ASP that performs table reporting and needs "baked daily" […]

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2002-04-23

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Generate Delete Stored Procedure

This procedure will generate a delete stored procedure against a provided table and column name in your database.  It will search for foriegn key constraints and create a delete statement for each one found in the database.  The procedure has three parameters:@table_name nvarchar(128) = the name of the source table@column_name nvarchar(128) = the name of […]

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2002-04-22

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List Network Share Directories Quickly

Need a quick way to list shared folders?  Do it in one call.  Great for ASP page popups and user drop-down lists.Let's say that you want to display a list of projects, just call usp_GET_ProjectFolder and VIOLA! Only works with 2k; however, can be ported to ss7 if the udf is ported to a proc […]

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2002-04-22

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Report table and column-level extended properties

SQL Server 2000's extended properties provide an easy way to store your data dictionary documentation within the database itself. This stored proc provides an easy way to extract all the table and column-level descriptions from those system tables for reporting purposes. This procedure can easily be modified to provide additional information to suite your needs. […]

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2002-04-22

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Send True SMTP Mail using CDOSys instead of CDONTS

SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 Only.Microsoft suggest using CDOSys rather than CDONTS.  CDOSys stands for Collaboration Data Objects for Windows 2000 Subsystems.  Below is a script that allows you do do just that.  NO EXCHANGE REQUIRED!!  Sample sends the user HTML Mail!Be sure to change @ServerIPAddr to your SMTP server.

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2002-04-22

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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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Adding new column with DEFAULT II

Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp
CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL)

INSERT INTO #tmp (id) 
SELECT gs.value
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

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