2016-12-06 (first published: 2015-07-27)
2,517 reads
Scripts
Email SP Results
Will take a stored procedure and email the results in a dynamically generated embedded HTML table or as an attachment.
2016-12-05 (first published: 2015-05-29)
2,801 reads
Kill SPIDs through automated job(while restore)
Here's a script, for killing a SPIDs against a particular database, here am using BIN as the database.
2016-12-02 (first published: 2008-07-17)
1,806 reads
Truncate tables with foreign keys
Truncating tables with constraints always had been a pain, since we have to drop and recreate all the FKs. I created a script that takes care of dropping and recreating the foreign keys while truncating. Please use with caution! and always respect your Data !
2016-12-01 (first published: 2016-11-28)
1,372 reads
2016-11-28 (first published: 2016-11-21)
4,126 reads
Warm the cache with a table and its indexes
Warm the cache with a particular table by reading it into memory.
2016-11-25 (first published: 2016-11-14)
895 reads
2016-11-24 (first published: 2003-07-09)
789 reads
2016-11-22 (first published: 2016-11-11)
831 reads
Generate add / alter script for missing / different type columns
This query generate add/alter script for missing or different columns. Execute on source database and copy resultset. Execute generated script on any database (may be all customer databases) Missing columns will be created and different types will change as source schema.
2016-11-18 (first published: 2016-11-07)
911 reads
Equivalent Oracle's INSTR Function in SQL server
Oracle Built in Function INSTR is a great function if you wish to locate a string or a subset of string in the nth place.
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-04)
1,415 reads
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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