Check owners, collations and backups
A script to check the owners, collations and backups on the server.
2012-04-16 (first published: 2007-10-19)
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Check Full Recovery DBs Have Tran Log Backups
A quick procedure to check which full recovery databases have not had a tran log backup in the given period (default is 7 days). This could mean that the recovery mode might need changing or the transaction log backup jobs need investigating.
2011-09-22 (first published: 2007-08-03)
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2007-12-27 (first published: 2007-10-23)
1,000 reads
sp_displaylogin - sybase style
this procedure takes a sql login name and returns information about the login.anyone who knows Sybase will recognise the name and layout. use :- exec sp_displaylogin 'loginname' to get login information returned.this procedure has been tested on SQL Server 2005 sp2any problems email pgr_consulting @ yahoo.com
2007-11-09 (first published: 2007-08-31)
1,180 reads
Collation Checker
this a quick sproc I put together to do various collation checks. databases that have different collations from serverdatabases that have different collations of columns withindatabases that have column collations different from database collation
2007-11-06 (first published: 2007-07-27)
2,253 reads
proc to order xp_enumerrorlog
this is a quick stored procedure I put together when trying to find a log for a particular day (xp_enumerrorlogs returns the archive is as a varchar, so 1 is followed by 11, 12 etc rather than 2) sp_display_errorlogs with no parms returns output in archive id order. if the parm 'size' is passed in, […]
2007-09-21
743 reads
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