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Auto generate sp's for any table * usp_create_sps

If you've ever been stuck having to write stored procedures to support an application, check this script out.  This script will automatically generate seperate parameter driven select, insert, delete, and update stored procedures.  Simply call these stored procedures from your application, passing parameters.  This stored procedure requires only one parameter; table name.  Creates scripts with […]

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2002-02-21

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Find a string in DB objects.

Find a string in Procedures, Triggers, Constraints, Defaults, Functions, and Views. First off this will not work for any items that have the WITH ENCRYPTION remark in them. With this is can pose a string such as 'INSERT' against all the 'P'rocedures to get a return of which Procedures have an INSERT statment in them […]

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2002-02-21

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sp_spaceused2

An update to sp_spaceused2. This update fixes some problems related to dbs that are non-accessible such being offline. This stored proc can be run from any database when compiled in master and can report information on all databases at once. Get information on all dbs, one db, one db and all its tables or one […]

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2002-02-19

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Analyze Space Used for each Table

The following batchfile demonstrates how to use Windows command extension to extract the values of sp_spaceused for each table in the database. The output of sp_spaceused itself contains strings that do not get easily analyzed. The batch file extracts the numbers and outputs the sizes for each table in the database.Copy the batchfile to a […]

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2002-02-18

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DATEMY - Covnerts and validates MM/YY, MM/YYYY

If you've ever needed a convenient and quick way to convert/validate what could possibly be a mm/yy or mm/yyyy date to mm/dd/yyyy (date of month is 01) check out this custom function.  Eg:  select dbo.datemy('04/02') outputs smalldatetime '2002-04-01 00:00:00'.  Select dbo.datemy('04/2002') outputs the same smalldatetime '2002-04-01 00:00:00'.

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2002-02-15

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Rename User Login

You can effectively rename a user account but as this is messing wit the system tables I would suggest dropping and adding the user back. But for those of you who really want to know how here it is.First off I tested this and it works fine renaming a user. However this is directly modifying […]

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2002-02-14

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Send notifications on job STEP failures (trigger)

Have you ever wanted to have SQL note a failure on a step, yet continue running the job.  I found it to be annoying that you have to fail (and end) a job in order to send a message to an operator.  I have processes that run at off times, I want to know when […]

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2002-02-13

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Running SQLCMD I

I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:

lcmd -S localhost -E
I then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version go
If I hit enter, what happens?

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