Chris Kempster

Chris has been working in the computer industry for around 8 years as an Application Development DBA. He began his career as an Oracle AP then moved into a DBA role using Oracle. From there he has specialised in DBA technical consulting with a focus to both Oracle and SQL Server. Chris has been actively involved with SQL Server since 1999 for a variety of clients and is currently working with a range of large scale internet based development projects.
Visit www.chriskempster.com for further information and his ebook titled "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA".
  • Interests: Mt Biking, playing with my young kids, and IT

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Generate Restore DB Scripts from prev backups v1.0

Using the the MSDB backup tables, will generate the basic disk RESTORE commands for a database. It will include the Full, differential and all associated log recovery commands for you. Run the stored proc in Query Analyser then copy/alter the output to recover your DB. Great if using EE is not your cup of tea. […]

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2002-01-03

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Email using CDONTS (via smtp)

Here is a very basic example script for sending emails via CDONTS. This comes from the sqlmag web-site forum. Although fine, remember that it will use the local SMTP server to forward emails onto the destination user. If your servers smtp process can not reach an exchange/group-wise/other mail box on your network, then this code […]

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2001-08-09

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