If you set up a default on a column AFTER data has been entered, then this procedure will apply the default to all NULL values within that column. Limitations: It only works with numeric values right now.You will also need the INSTR function, which you can also get from this site.This is my first […]
2004-10-13 (first published: 2004-07-22)
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There are times when you have mulitple job failures and need to find out in a quick way which jobs/steps failed and what their rerun statuses are. This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.
2004-10-12 (first published: 2004-07-21)
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This is a utility proc that I use a lot for datawarehouse transformation/load processing. This is a generic proc for resequencing an integer column in sorted order within a given key combination.Note that 'key' is used here in a general context and not specific, that is there doesn't have to be any keys or indexes […]
2004-10-12
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Modification of the script entitled "Counting occurrences in a string" by thomasun.This version, packaged as a UDF, is not limited to searching for single characters - substrings can be counted.
2004-10-11 (first published: 2004-07-20)
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This script will generated random numbers within a choosen Upper and LowerBound. I'v created a random number (int's) generator since i couldnt find a script which exactly did what I was searching for. The RAND function seems to do repetive patterns, so i created a new function based on the NEWID function.After running the two […]
2004-10-08 (first published: 2004-01-09)
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Here is a simpler version of the Delete All Script that was posted on 2004-10-07.Be careful it does what it is supposed to do delete all tables from the current database
2004-10-07
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I've search high and low on the Internet for good examples of Paging Data in an application. However, none of the Examples were clean enough, or worked for all situations. For example, there are no examples of Data Paging for Tables with Composite Keys.This Script is able to page Data on any Table, using any […]
2004-10-07
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Based on a script from this site, which sets ownership of all objects to dbo, this modification of the original author's code simply adds user defined functions (UDF's). Script now includes tables, views, procs and functions.
2004-10-07 (first published: 2004-07-19)
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Delete all rows from all user tables. Create stored procedure and execute the procedure to get rid of all rows from all tables. This will not drop your tables. Be very careful what you wish for!
2004-10-06 (first published: 2004-01-20)
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This script displays all tables in a database that has identity columns.
2004-10-06
147 reads
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