Searching for Text in the Create Statements of Views and Stored Procedures in SQL Server

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This is closely related to my last post, where we were searching for text in the data itself, but now we’re just looking to see if the text exists in the statements that create views or stored procedures. This has been tested only on SQL Server 2008 R2. If you do not have permission on … Read more

SQL Script to Find Text in all Database Tables and Views…Revised!

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Almost a year ago, I had reason to write a SQL script that would search for text anywhere in a database. Since then, I’ve had reason to modify and enhance it. The modification was done primarily to support SQL Server 2000, which I still have to support. The enhancement was done primarily to support user-defined … Read more

The New City of Houston City-Wide Fee Schedule has been Published!

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Back in 2013, I was on the winning team for the City of Houston’s Open Innovation Hackathon, and we produced a replacement for the previous fee schedule. The new fee schedule is now on the public City of Houston website! Update: The new fee schedule, which was at http://www.houstontx.gov/finance/feeschedule/, is not available as of 2015-09-10.