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SQL SERVER - 2005 - Find Tables With Foreign Key Constraint in Database - Part 2

SQL SERVER – 2005 – Find Tables With Foreign Key Constraint in Database – Part 2

May 8, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Scripts, SQL System Table

Joffery improved my script to find tables with foreign key constraint in a database, adding the ON UPDATE and ON DELETE rules and a little ordering.

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SQL SERVER - Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server - Part 2 Extension

SQL SERVER – Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server – Part 2 Extension

May 5, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, Undocumented SQL

Two more ways from Simon Worth to find table in every database of SQL Server, both built on sp_msforeachdb, one saving results to a temp table.

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NOT and NULL: Unknown Does Not Become True

May 2, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
Best Practices, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

NOT and NULL do not create a complete two-way classification. State whether missing values belong in a filter or a separate reporting category.

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SQL SERVER - Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server - Part 2

SQL SERVER – Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server – Part 2

April 30, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL System Table

Part 2 of how to find a table in every database of SQL Server: this stored procedure loops through sys.databases and reads the Information_Schema view.

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SQL SERVER - Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server

SQL SERVER – Find Table in Every Database of SQL Server

April 29, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL System Table

sys.tables only searches one database. My quick stored procedure finds a table in every database on the server and returns database, schema and table name.

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CHARINDEX Start Position: Find the Second Delimiter

April 27, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Function, SQL Scripts, SQL String

CHARINDEX start position finds the next delimiter. Guard a missing first match, preserve NULL, and extract empty fields without negative lengths.

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LEFT OUTER JOIN - WHERE NULL.

SQL SERVER – Converting Subqueries to Joins

April 23, 2008
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL Joins, SQL Performance, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Developers often write subqueries where Joins would do, or the other way around. A short note on converting between the two, with links to my earlier examples.

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