VB-like Date Format Function (Corrected)
T-SQL String Function: Returns passed date formatted using passed criteria. Format criteria similar to Visual Basic. Sorry, prior script had a reference to one of my internal UDFs :(.
2003-12-17
209 reads
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Job Status Revised.
This procedure queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules(if applicable),how often the interval occurs(every X hours,min.,days,etc), the maximun duration, last duration,last status of the job.This is a script that I modified and added to from M.Pearson.
2003-12-16
387 reads
VB-like Date Format Function (Corrected Org 3/8/04)
T-SQL String Function: Returns passed date formatted using passed criteria. Format criteria similar to Visual Basic. Saw that I could correct it, so corrected 3/8/04
2003-12-09
152 reads
Function to Format Select Queries to Columns
This function will strip all extra spaces, CRLFs and tabs from a SELECT statement, from the SELECT keyword to the End of the Order By clause, then reformat the statement to put all keywords at the left margin and subordinate clauses indented by ONE Tab. There is an example of a SELECT statement that came […]
2003-12-07
152 reads
Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation
This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all used fields), stored procedures (including used fields and parameters), database users, database settings and server settings.This script has been cobbled together from several others found on this site, so they deserve the recognition, not me 🙂Simply execute it […]
2003-12-05
660 reads
Find Duplicate Indexes
There are plenty of scripts out there that find duplicate indexes, but they all seem to use cursors. I didn't want to use a cursor so I ended up creating a few that could handle the duplicates and decided to share this one. This will return the table name and the names of the two […]
2003-12-04
2,721 reads
SQL Server DB Size Report
This script is similar in style to my previous script SQL Server Job Status Report, but this script generates an HTML report on the size of all databases on a specific SQL Server instance. The report consists of several sections: a summary report on the size of all databases; a summary report on the size […]
2003-12-04
1,130 reads
Flexible searching on tables
In my company's web site there are search pages for allowing users to search info on one or more tables (or in my case a select with 10 joins). Often the requirements for these search pages change over time with users either requesting additional columns to search or remove columns that are no longer useful. […]
2003-12-03
231 reads
Occurs
Returns the number of times a character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a character expression that OCCURS( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OCCURS( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OCCURS( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.
2003-12-03
83 reads
OccursAny
Returns the number of times any word in comma delimeted character expression occurs within another character expression.cSearchExpression -- Specifies a comma delimeted character expression that OccursAny( ) searches for within cExpressionSearched. cExpressionSearched -- Specifies the character expression OccursAny( ) searches for cSearchExpression.OccursAny( ) returns 0 (zero) if cSearchExpression isn't found within cExpressionSearched.Example:OccursAny('the,dog','The quick brown fox […]
2003-12-03
65 reads
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The Density Vector
When building statistics, there is the concept of density that refers to the duplicates in a table. How is this calculated?
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