Wesley Brown

Wes use to be a pretty good DBA now he is in management.
  • Interests: Collecting old computers
  • Skills: I talk a lot.

Technical Article

yet another backup script using litespeed or native backup

Updated! Now supports both SQL Litespeed and native backup commands in one script! Several new bug fixes please see the header of the script. Error messages to add are now at the bottom of the script! This stored procedure will backup a single database or all databases it will also perform ether a full, diff, […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-26 (first published: )

989 reads

Technical Article

Yet another restore script usp_restore

usp_restore - This will restore a backup performed with SQL LiteSpeed from DBAssocatesIT or by the standard backup database routines in SQL Server Please check below the declarations to find the user settable options for this script If the target database is currently in a loading status or cannot be read from this restore it […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-10-25 (first published: )

618 reads

Technical Article

yet another backup script usp_backup

I wrote this to backup to a network share you can set the backup to spool to the local disk first then it will move it to another drive or to a unc just fine. Directory to hold and move to are not optional but if you set them to the same path it won't […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-09-06 (first published: )

395 reads

Technical Article

alert on blocking chains via email

This is a script I use to watch for blocking chains on a server there are four variables to be set. @Duration tells it how long to run. This will be an active thread for the duration. @IntervalSec how often to poll for blocking. @maxwaittime time in miliseconds a thread that is blocked that you […]

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2004-09-01 (first published: )

1,789 reads

Technical Article

Backup Transaction Logs on all Databases

Here we go again. This is the last in my backup series that I use to do backups of the databases. As far as I know this should only kick out errors when there really is one. This stored procedure is designed to take 4 parameters @bksrv : This is the name or the IP […]

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2001-09-06

862 reads

Technical Article

Differential Backups of all Databases

This is the SP I schedule to do diff backups on the DB's that I can. I still need to add errorchecking to see if there is a full available before I do a diff. I'll add that when I get time. This stored procedure is designed to take 4 parameters @bksrv : This is […]

5 (2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2001-09-06

1,533 reads

Technical Article

Stored Procedure to Backup all Databases

This is the script I use to backup all my DB's this does fulls and dumps them locally to disk then spools them off to FTP. This stored procedure is designed to take 4 parameters @bksrv : This is the name or the IP address of the spooler or backup server to send to. @user […]

5 (1)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2001-09-06

4,588 reads

Blogs

Using Customer Docker Compose File Names

By

As I use containers more and more to run various things, I decided I...

SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances

By

Old Reliable Still Matters If you’ve been around SQL Server for a while, you’ve...

How to: Regain SysAdmin Access to a SQL Server Instance Without the SA Password

By

Hello, reader! Today, I’m going to walk you through a scenario that many DBAs...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

SQL Server authentication vs. Trusted connection

By Rod at work

I maintain an application written years ago, where the database is on a Windows...

Handling Engagement Rings & Wedding Band

By iBling Jewels

I’m working on a jewelry e-commerce project and need advice on designing an efficient...

The Duplicate Cursor

By Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Duplicate Cursor

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

The Duplicate Cursor

Can I run this code:

DECLARE ANewTable CURSOR FOR 
SELECT * FROM ANewTable

See possible answers