List All Databases, Sizes and Properties
This script will list all the databases on your server (SQL2000 only) as well as their sizes and some key properties. Very useful for keeping rogue developers under control 🙂
2003-05-17
794 reads
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Get the Foreign Key Hierarchy
This script will run through the foreign keys on tables to produce a hierarchy of the tables in a database.This is useful when you need to purge and repopulate test databases with foreign key contraints
2002-07-24
2,124 reads
List All Jobs and Their Schedules
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable) and the maximun duration of the job.
2002-06-20
4,256 reads
List All Jobs and Their Schedules (SQL7.0 & 2000)
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable).
2002-06-04
1,761 reads
Get table sizes and rowcounts in MB (for VLDB)
This simple script is based on sp_spacedused, but returns values for all user tables in the database, with information in MB instead of the usual KB - which is useful for large databases. Simply run it in query analyser against the database concerned
2002-05-03
756 reads
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers