I don’t have to tell you that the folks at Microsoft can be quite sneaky so, in case you don’t already know, there are a number of unofficially documented SQL stored procedures that can make your life not only better, but often cursor-free.<\/p>\n
The one that is most helpful to me is entitled “sp_msforeachtable.” Using this stored procedure you can accomplish the same tasks on each table.<\/p>\n
You can Google it for more information but a short and simple article can be found at DatabaseJournal.com:<\/p>\n
“Beginning with version 6.5 of SQL Server, Microsoft provides a stored procedure called sp_MSreachfortable. Using the question mark as a place holder for all table names, the procedure will do the same as the above query in a single line. You can replace the above cursor with this : <\/p>\n sp_MSforeachtable @command1=”print ‘?’ dbcc checktable (‘?’)”<\/a><\/p>\n For more handy secrets, do a search on “undocument sql server stored procedures” or http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=undocumented+sql+server+stored+procedures<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t have to tell you that the folks at Microsoft can be quite sneaky so, in case you don’t already know, there are a number of unofficially documented SQL stored procedures that can make your life not only better, but often cursor-free. The one that is most helpful to me is entitled “sp_msforeachtable.” Using … Continue reading “Shhh! Secret Procedures!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}