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)
2,629 reads
Administration
2007-12-18 (first published: 2007-10-18)
2,672 reads
2007-10-12
3,149 reads
usp_ShowOrphanUsers - SQL 2k
Check Orphaned logins ie, not associated with any database on the current instance.
2007-10-11
884 reads
Deadlock Notifications in SQL Server 2005
Deadlocks do not occur too often, but when they do, it can be a time consuming and frustrating endeavor to track them down. In SQL Server 2000, you could alter the message to ensure these were written to the error log and track them down quickly. In SQL Server 2005, it is a little more tricky, but new author Patrick Leblanc brings us a technique for sending out a notification.
2007-10-10
15,317 reads
Max Actual datalength
This script returns the defined rowlength and the actual datalength for the longest row in a table.
2007-12-10 (first published: 2007-10-01)
921 reads
Show Table, Index and Image/Text size.
This is a simple script that show size from a table and yours related objects.
2012-12-24 (first published: 2007-09-27)
2,713 reads
2007-09-27
2,509 reads
2007-09-24
3,148 reads
Changing Service Credentials
One day, you may need to change those service credentials under which your SQL Server services normally run. If you have a number of servers, then you'll really want to read about Rodney's solution.
2007-09-21
2,360 reads
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Checking Identities
The DBCC CHECKIDENT command is used when working with identity values. I have a table with 10 rows in it that looks like this:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 2 2 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 3 3 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 4 4 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 5 5 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 6 6 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 7 7 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 8 8 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 9 9 2025-01-11 2025-01-16 10 10 2025-01-11 2025-01-16The docs for DBCC CHECKIDENT say this if I run with only the table parameter: "If the current identity value for a table is less than the maximum identity value stored in the identity column, it is reset using the maximum value in the identity column. " I run this code:
DELETE dbo.TravelLog WHERE TravelLogID >= 9
GO
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog, RESEED)
GO
INSERT dbo.TravelLog
(
CityID,
StartDate,
EndDate
)
VALUES
(4, '2025-09-14', '2025-09-17')
GO
What is the identity value for the new row inserted by the insert statement above? See possible answers