Comprehensive Backup Script
These scripts were generated to standardize our SQL backup environments, and to remove backups from Maintenance Plans.
2011-12-22 (first published: 2008-01-29)
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Simon Facer
Why SHRINKFILE is a very bad thing, and what to do about it.
This article talks about why SHRINKFILE is a very bad thing, and what to do about it if you must shrink a database file.
2011-12-16 (first published: 2010-11-09)
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Proc to Rename a file
A simple way to rename a file from within a T-SQL Script, primarily designed to add a date-time stamp. Works in 2000 and 2005.
2011-10-28 (first published: 2008-05-13)
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2008-06-19
9,196 reads
Audit SQL Logins
We have auditors in the building, looking at our security (amongst other things). So, we needed an easy way to generate a listing of the SQL logins, and the permissions into each database on our servers (over 70 if them).This script will generate the listings the auditors wanted.
2007-04-02 (first published: 2007-03-07)
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