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Update Foreign Key References

This script updates all foreign key references for the specified table. Useful if you need to delete a row. The follow example would update all uses of TableA.IDENTITYCOL where the value is 1 to the value of 2. Example usage: EXEC usp_updateFK 'TableA', 1, 2

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2001-11-03

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Query to Display Trigger Status

Ever wanted to know whether your triggers are enabled or not? The ObjectProperty command allows you to select information about the status of objects in your database, returning 1 for True and 0 for False. The example below determines whether a single trigger is disabled. SELECT ObjectProperty(object_id('Trigger_Name'), 'ExecIsTriggerDisabled') There are a number of other useful […]

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2001-10-28

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Shows Tables for a Given Database from DOS

If you are using OSQL or ISQL from DOS querys are really hard to use, because the result is to big for the screen. With this procedure, you can especify from wich column to wich column show the list of tables. For Example: proc_tables master, 3, 10 will show you only a short list of […]

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2001-10-28

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Run a Script Against All User Databases

Now you can run administrative T-SQL tasks against all your databases in one shot. Very usefull for environments that have a seperate database for each client, ASP's, etc. It's pretty straight forward and can be used for almost any task. This example Looks for a table and prints the database name and selects from the […]

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2001-10-21

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Find Longstanding Open Transactions

Ever forget to commit a transaction and then find out hours later that there is deadlocked transactions all over your database server? Worse yet has one of your coworkers done this to your database server? Never again, this stored procedure will net send the machine that has an open transaction, and send you (The DBA) […]

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2001-10-08

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Finding Trailing Spaces

I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:

CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName
1          Steve        Steve               
2          Andy         Andy               
3          Brian        Brian               
4          Allan        Allan               
5          Devin        Devin               
6          Steve        Steve               
7          Sally        Sally
I want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT 
       CustomerID,
       CustomerName,
       PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName);

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