PowerShell: Find & Replace SQL Server Stored Procedure/View/UDF/Trigger Code En Masse Based On Custom Criteria

Update April 19, 2019: Thanks to Tim (in comments), the updated script can also do find/replace in not just stored procedures but also views, UDF's and triggers. Today, a need came-up where a bunch of stored procedures had to be altered based on certain criteria. Easy way: Obviously, the easiest way would be to script …

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PowerShell – Case-insensitive String Replacement

The problem: Replace "a" with "b" case-insensitively You have a simple string and you want to replace all "a" with "b" in a case-insensitive manner. First attempt (fail): PS C:\Windows\system32> [string] $someString = 'aAaAaAaA' $SomeString.Replace('a', 'b') #Result bAbAbAbAbA What happened? The [string].Replace() method is case-sensitive Second attempt (looks like it works but not quite): PS …

Oracle – Compare Text Files With 10 Million Lines In 10 Minutes Using 10 Lines Of Code – EXTERNAL Tables

The goal of this post is to compare two text files that may have millions of lines and compare them to quickly find out which lines differ using Oracle EXTERNAL tables. As an Oracle professional, “external tables” are something you may already be familiar with or maybe you have heard about them but not used …