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spAddField

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 […]

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2002-03-05

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spFindTableInfo

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 […]

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2002-03-05

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Return formatted datetime as a string

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', […]

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2002-02-27

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Recompile Views/SPs from DOS from .SQL Files.

This script is very helpful for anyone trying to recreate particular SQL Server Database Versions for Testing.  It allows you to automatically recompile any stored procedures or views saved with drop, create and permission statements.  The scripts must all be sitting in one directory and end in the same extension.  I have found this very […]

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2002-02-25

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Re-create Transaction log file

This stored procedure detaches and re-attaches a database without specifying a filename for the transaction log. This causes SQL Server to create log file with default size of 512kb.After playing around with SHRINKDATABASE, SHRINKFILE, forcing the virtual log to wrap around, etc... I found this was the quickest and most reliable method of reclaiming the […]

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2002-02-25

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