Transfer or Restore Logins to New Server
Not my script, but this script will transfer the logins to a new server or help you restore the in a DR situation with their correct passwords (encrypted).
2003-11-03
1,151 reads
Backup and restore
Kick all users out of a DB
This script to designed to kill all connections for all users to a specified database. This is used in conjunction with an automated QA/Dev database restore/refresh process run as a DTS job.
2003-08-21
732 reads
Script to backup all databases
A proc which gets a list of all databases (Exluding "excluded" ones) and backs them up.The backup files are stored in the directory \DatabaseName\DatabaseName.bakUNC names are supported provided SQL Server has write access to the location.It deletes backups older than x (Current 3) days.This can be changed.Add a job to execute the script of proc […]
2003-06-26
704 reads
Very easy way to fix ORPHAN users
Run this script against the database restored from other SQL Server database. It will solve the orphan users.
2003-06-12
785 reads
Full, diff and tlog backups based on recovery mode
This a script which creates stored procedures that can be executed adhoc or set as sql agent jobs to check the recovery status and generate full, differential or transaction log backupf for each database if the database recovery status is set to full. We have terabytes of data and set all production databases […]
2003-06-06
940 reads
Database Force Restore
This stored Procedure can be used to force restores the database by killing all the process running over this database.
2003-06-05
417 reads
Script to produce SP_ATTACH_DB code
This SP take 0 or 1 parameters. Execute without any parms and you will the sp_attach_db statements for all db's on you server. Execute with a database name and it will generate statements for stated db.
2003-05-06
1,018 reads
Delete old backup files
This is one example of how you can make backups with a date stamp for the file name. You can then periodically remove the files that are older than a specified date by simply placing a few lines of code in a job step and calling the supplied sp and passing the date from which […]
2003-04-25
774 reads
Restore DB from Disk File script
This script was designed to restore a backup of a production database from disk file, handle multiple DB files, move the files to new location, with new database name that is customized for the date of the backup, create any missing logins, and fix any user accounts that are orphaned by differing SIDs from the […]
2003-04-24
1,072 reads
Copy all jobs, job steps and job schedules
This vbscript will generate the sql to recreate all the jobs running on a given SQL server. I wrote this because the last time we migrated a SQL server, I ended up re-creating all the jobs, steps and schedules by hand using the Enterprise Manager. It was the slowest, dullest and most error-prone part of […]
2003-04-17
898 reads
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Fixing the Error
On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers