By using this script one can find number of rows for each and every table in a database. Just cut and past this script in your DB and excute. A stored procedure will be created as 'Get_rowcounts_for_eachtable'. If U excuted this stored procedure, U can get all tablenames and rowcounts for respected […]
2002-03-07
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This will report all backup activity for all databases, sorted by date, so you see the last backup activity first. You can filter this one by a db name as well, and only see the backup info for said database.
2002-03-07
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This will get the last date a database was backuped. It allows you to report this date on all databases on a server, or pass in a db name, and it'll report the date that db was last backed up
2002-03-07
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I use this SP to return full directory information into a table. FilePath, FileName, Filedate and FileSize are parsed from a 'dir /n/on/-c ' command. FilesInDir is the table created. usage: exec LoadFileDetailsIntoTable 'c:\winnt'select * from FilesInDir where filesize > 100000select min(fileDate) from FilesInDirThe Return Code will equal the number of files found.
2002-03-05
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spAddField is the proc I use to add all fields to the db in our upgrade scripts. With this proc, you pass it the tablename, fieldname, datatype, and null or not null. This will call spGetFieldsExists and see if the fields exists or not. If it does, spAddField will drop that column. Then it readds […]
2002-03-05
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spDropField does exactly the opposite of spAddField. It checks for existence, then drops it, if it does exist.
2002-03-05
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spFindTableInfo is a great proc for finding info about your database. It will accept parameters like tablename, fieldname, size, datatype. So you can run it with no params, and it'll report every table, every field in those tables, and the size, datatype and whether its nullable or not. You can filter it by Table name […]
2002-03-05
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spGetFieldsExists takes a tablename and a field name, and checks if that field exists in that table.It simply returns 0 or 1 (false or true).
2002-03-05
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This stored procedure will list all the tables and columns in a given database. Usage: spro_ListAllColumns @dbname = 'Northwind'.
2002-02-28
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Pass a datetime value and receive back a formatted string. Much like the Format$ function in Visual Basic.I put this together to provide a date string to add to filename. Also handy when you are creating text files that require datetime data to be output in weird character formats like yyddmm or yyyymm.eg: fnDate2Char(GetDate(), 'dmy', […]
2002-02-27
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