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Extract data from sp_who for specific database

sp_who (and sp_who2) work great for a quick view of what's going on in the system, and can be filtered by user, but there's no way to filter by database. This quick stored procedure provides data on which users are accessing a specific database.

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2004-09-13

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Get back list of failed dts packages

This is a fairly basic script that gets back a list of steps within dts packages that failed within the last 24 hours. The reason I wrote this script, is that if you call a dts package from a dts package on another server via a scheduled job on that same server, both the package […]

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2004-09-13 (first published: )

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Script to show user indexes tables(Sql 2000)

This script is supported only in SQL SERVER 2000, This shows only indexes created by users in tables.Parameter @tabela--> You can put the table name and get the information about users indexes in this table.OrYou can put nothing (NULL) and see all tables on the schema and how many indexes each table have.

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2004-09-10 (first published: )

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Script to automatically restore needed log-backups

Given a backupfile with a lot of sequential log-backups, this script automatically restores just those backups out of the file, which are necessary to bring the database up to a given timelag relating to the original database.Params are path to backupfile, name of the db to restore to, timelag in minutes.

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2004-09-08 (first published: )

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UNISTR Basics

What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)

SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
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