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How can I search the full text of a stored procedure for a value?

I use the following script to search the text of all stored procedures when I want to find specific values. SELECT ROUTINE_NAME, ROUTINE_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_DEFINITION ...
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Can I launch a stored procedure and immediately return without waiting for it to finish?

We have a stored procedure that users can run manually to get some updated numbers for a report that's used constantly throughout the day. I have a second stored procedure that should be run after ...
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How to split the comma separated list in the stored procedure

I am working on small module in which we pass the column name as comma-separated string to a stored procedure. In the stored procedure, we want to separate the column names out.
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Who changed/modified stored procedure in SSMS 2005 or 2008? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Determining how a schema change occurred? I have a stored procedure that was modified late last night and just spent the majority of the morning tracing issues back to ...
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Will a SP which writes records fail if accessed by a db_datareader role?

I have a stored procedure which is accessed remotely by an app which is running on some kind of Java/WebSphere type platform. It takes one argument, returns some data and that's that. Recently there ...
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What should I consider when deciding between passing a comma-delimited string to a stored procedure instead of calling it individually per record?

I have to run the same stored procedure for a lot of records (hundreds or thousands, depending on user selection). The procedure is fairly basic: insert a record in two separate tables with some ...
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transactional Replication of millions of updates

I have standard transactional replication setup from 2005 to 4 2008 subscribers. One of the tables that is replicated is updated several times from an agent job resulting in 6 million updates ...
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SQL Server database : moving from 2008 to 2005 - encrypted procedure issue

I could normally use generate scripts / DTS to move data and tables etc. However one of the databases has a large amount of encrypted procedures that I can't script to move. Neither do I have older ...
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What can cause an UPDATE statement to execute endless?

I have a stored-procedure which is executed at 7 o'clock in the morning that updates the database because new records were imported at night. Today it started but never endet. So i've tried to run ...
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Why does a query run slower in a Stored Procedure than in the Query window?

I have a complex query which runs in 2 seconds in the query window, but about 5 minutes as a Stored Procedure. Why is it taking so much longer to run as a stored procedure? Here's what my query looks ...
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high 'total_worker_time' for stored proc using OPENQUERY in SQL Server 2005

I have a stored procedure in SQL Server 2005 (SP2) which contains a single query like the following (simplified for clarity) SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(MYODBC, 'SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Option = ...
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BACKUP failed to complete - with spaces, for no reason

Every day my database backup fails for some databases and does fine for others. I'm calling the backup through a Stored Procedure that runs scheduled in a job. Tonight I'm going to run the procedure ...
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Possible to add KEEPFIXED PLAN option to reduce the recompile in SqlServer2k5 on Production Env?

I'm not sure if it is good to enable the KEEPFIXED PLAN to reduce the impact of recompilation in the Production Env? I'd know if we may gain performance after that or on the other hand it will be ...
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SQL Server: How to call stored procedure without schema name?

SQL Server 2005std/2008web edition db=user=schema=owner='John' I'm moving website from one server to another. This piece of code works well on old server with SQL Server 2005. Dim sqlCmdVehicle ...
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SQL 2005- stored procedure performance troubleshooting

I am investigating performance issues for a stored procedure on SQL 2005 server. This is how I intend to do it: Analyze the stored procedure for any bad TSQL practices (like count * etc) Run it ...
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update stored proc ony fields that are passed to the proc and leaving others alone

i have a stored proc that does a simple update (see below). i want to update only fields passed and not the ones that are null. that is to say if i dont get a parm value for somethign i dont want ...
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Most efficient way to return multiple aggregates in a single stored proc?

What is the best or most efficient way to get multiple aggregate result values? Basically I have an email app and wanted to get all the numbers of messages for each type of folder (inbox, sent, ...
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What is the best method to add error handling in SQL 2005 stored procs?

What’s a good way to make stored procs robust enough that they can scale very well and also contain error handling? Additionally, whats the best way to handle multiple error scenarios in a stored ...
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What's the best paradigm or design pattern for exception handling in a mission-critical DB driven web application?

I want to design a bullet-proof, fault tolerant, DB driven web application and was wondering on how to architect it. the system will have a asp.net UI, web services middle tier and SQL2005 back end. ...
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How to migrate SQL Server Stored Procedures using temporary tables or table variables to Oracle?

C# developer encouraged by management to write SQL Server stored procedures often produce procedures like this create table #t1 (...); insert into #t1 Select ... from table_a where ...; insert into ...
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Help understanding SQL Server 2005 execution plan

One of my stored procedure has long execution time (average around 4 to 7 minutes). Now I trying to tweak it an make it run faster. I am looking at execution plan and two things I see that using ...