2002-04-01
767 reads
T-SQL
Find Users in a Database
This script would help you find users, their logins, roles etc in a database.
2002-04-01
339 reads
Detection of Broken Forign Key Relationship
Under special circumstances, it could happen that database contains "orphan" records. Data in dependant table exists without it's "parent" record in a master table. It could be caused by a bulk insert operation without CHECK_CONSTRAINTS option, or by disabling foreign key for a while or adding a foreign key to a table that already contains […]
2002-03-27
200 reads
Cast Your Data
This article looks at the T-SQL CAST function and how it is used and preferred to CONVERT().
2002-03-18
16,787 reads
Rows count for each and every table in a DB
By using this script one can find number of rows for each and every table in a database. Just cut and past this script in your DB and excute. A stored procedure will be created as 'Get_rowcounts_for_eachtable'. If U excuted this stored procedure, U can get all tablenames and rowcounts for respected […]
2002-03-07
584 reads
List tables,stored procs & Scrips
list all user tables,stored procedures involving these tabels and the scrips of these procedures
2002-02-21
558 reads
UDF to strip brackets from phone numbers
I find phone numbers to be the messiest data that users enter. There are so many variations with brackets that I wrote this UDF to help clean up the data. Usage: SELECT Firstname , SURNAME , udfStripBracket(PHONENUMBER) AS BracketlessNumber FROM dbo.UserContact
2002-02-05
267 reads
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
2002-01-28
1,678 reads
Encryption Example
Here in this T-sql tip I'am trying to compare the word "Hijacker" with two cases(line 3 and 4). Now they are in same when you compare the case (letter to letter), now you change the case of word "Hijacker" in either of the lines and run this SQL statements it will return different results. This […]
2002-01-05
668 reads
Generate Drop Script for all Objects of a Type
Generates a series of drop statements for all objects of the input type (e.g., 'U' for User Tables). Install in the master database.
2002-01-04
343 reads
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