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SP to import to a file

Is a SP that imports a table to a file. You just put the table name, the path and the sa password and then you have it. It is important that it parse the table inserted (pubs.dbo.sales for example) and checks that the db, the table with the owner exists

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2002-01-28

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Alert Procedure for Long-Running Job

For jobs that run periodically and should take only a short time to run, a DBA may want to know when the job has been running for an excessive time. In this case, just checking to see IF the job is running won't do; the ability to make sure that it hasn't been running for […]

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2002-01-15

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Show Blocking and Wait time

When executed against a database in which blocking occur, below script will report lockType, Object waited for and current Wait times. The script requires access to master..systables. The script queries syslockInfo (as does sp_lock), but further joins sysprocesses with an interpretation of waitresource matching SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000.

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2002-01-14

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Perform an action when a file exisits

Script to check whether a file exists with todays date and performs an action based on whether the file exisits or not. We use this to check whether backups have completed from another SQL Srver and if they have completed we restoe on a server used for management information

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2002-01-09

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Script to generate BCP Statements for a Database

The Script below creates a Stored Procedure that returns a Macro SQL Statement. When this SQL statement is executed, it inturn returns BCP Out Statements for all the tables in a given database. The database name should be passed as a parameter to the procedure. Before the procedure is created, the SA Password must be […]

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2002-01-07

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Creating a JSON Document I

I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:

TeamID  TeamName  City          YearEstablished
1       Cowboys   Dallas        1960
2       Eagles  Philadelphia  1933
If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;

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