This DTS package reads a list of servers from an XML configuration file, connects to each server, and writes a list of all failed jobs to a web page on the web server. Each morning, I just need to open my browser and I can see the status of all 42 of our servers.
2002-09-19
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I wrote this for the developers because they were always asking me to find all of their stored procedures that did X.It scans through the syscomments text in each database looking for the requested string. User must have read access on the syscomments and sysobjects tables in each database.
2002-06-14
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This script captures the current system lock in a temp table, then builds a temp translation table for database and object id by iterating through all of the databases. It then produces a report by joining the two tables.For better performance, you could make the translation table perminante and only update it when you are […]
2002-06-14
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
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