I was catching up on some blog reading tonight when I saw this post. For retrieval purposes, I have made a copy of the post and will keep it for when in use. Thanks Omar!
Using T-SQL and the Registry to Retrieve a List of Countries
So every time I create a SQL script to populate a countries table I end up losing it. So here is proc I decided to keep forever on my blog that retrieves the list of countries from the registry of the machine it’s sitting on. Remember to run it under elevated permissions.
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PRINT
‘Building dbo.ListCountryFromRegistry’
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IF
EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE id = object_id(N‘dbo.ListCountryFromRegistry’) AND OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N‘IsProcedure’) = 1)
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BEGIN
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DROP
PROC dbo.ListCountryFromRegistry
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END
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GO
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CREATE
PROC dbo.ListCountryFromRegistry
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AS
9: –Root Key
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DECLARE @RootKey nvarchar(255)
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SET @RootKey = ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’
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13: –Registry Key
for country list
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DECLARE @CountryListKey nvarchar(255)
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SET @CountryListKey = ‘SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country List\’
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17: –Table
to store registry extracts
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CREATE
TABLE #RegistryOutput ( countryKey int)
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20: –Table
to store registry outputs with rownumbers.
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CREATE
TABLE #NumberedRegistryOutput ( rowNumber int, countryKey int)
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23: –Get the the list of country nodes under the cuntry list tree
24: INSERT INTO #RegistryOutput EXEC master..xp_regenumkeys @RootKey, @CountryListKey
25:
26: –Add RowNumbers to
use
as indexers later
27: INSERT INTO #NumberedRegistryOutput ( rowNumber, countryKey )
28: (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER
BY countryKey), countryKey
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FROM #RegistryOutput)
30:
31: –Grab a counter to
use
in looping through country nodes
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DECLARE @Counter int;
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SET @Counter = (SELECT
MAX(rowNumber) FROM #NumberedRegistryOutput);
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35: –Current
index
to be used to
iterate the countr nodes.
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DECLARE @CurrentCountryKey int;
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38: –Current Country Registry Key
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DECLARE @CountryRegistryKey nvarchar(150)
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41: –Country name returned form registry and
to be added to
output
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DECLARE @CountryName nvarchar(255)
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44: –Output
table
with Country Names
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Create
table #CountryNames ( CountryName nvarchar(255))
46:
47: –Loop through country nodes
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WHILE (@Counter > 0)
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BEGIN
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SET @Counter = @Counter – 1
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SET @CurrentCountryKey = (SELECT countryKey FROM #NumberedRegistryOutput WHERE rowNumber = @Counter)
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SET @CountryRegistryKey = @CountryListKey + RTRIM(LTRIM(CAST( @CurrentCountryKey as nvarchar(20))))
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EXEC master..xp_regread
55: @RootKey,
56: @CountryRegistryKey,
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‘Name’,
58: @CountryName OUTPUT
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60: Insert #CountryNames VALUES (@CountryName)
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END
62:
63: –Output
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Select * from #CountryNames ORDER
BY CountryName
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66: –Cleanup
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drop
table #RegistryOutput
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drop
table #NumberedRegistryOutput
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drop
table #CountryNames
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GO
