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
905 reads
Finds the last available backup for a specified database (local or remote server), then restores the backup onto an existing database on the local server.The script will kill all non-system processes in the destination database to allow the script to be scheduled at night regardless is anyone is still connected.The logical and physical names are […]
2003-03-31
774 reads
This script creates a stored proc to verify all backups in a media set and load their history into MSDB. I use this frequently when I get backup files from clients and want to use Enterprise Manager's intelligent restore selection to quickly get the database restored on a test machine.
2003-03-11
309 reads
If, like me, you are constantly restoring/moving several databases between multiple environments (development to staging, production to training, etc.), you know how tedious it can get to use EM, or to manually type out all those RESTORE...WITH MOVE statements in QA.Even having a saved script isn't the ideal thing, as you still need to go […]
2003-02-10
1,800 reads
One of the challenges weve faced is changing passwords in a warm server to reflect changes made to the live server. The initial transfer of users and passwords was performed by the sp_help_revlogin script provided by Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246133. The difficulty with this script was once the users are in place, you cant sync changed […]
2003-01-08
156 reads
Came across a great script from Ken Kaufman on copying backups using xp_cmdshell. Thought I'd contribute a script I wrote that builds on that to restore the latest production backup to a testing or development server. In this case I routinely create all my production backups to a network share and then use that source […]
2002-12-16
653 reads
This script will do a full backup of any new database(s) on the server that does not have a backup already. This script runs Monday thru Saturday at our site.
2002-12-12
238 reads
This script will backup all databases that are online and have a recovery property of 'SIMPLE' AND already have a full backup. This script is set to run Monday thru Saturday at our site.
2002-12-12
220 reads
This script will backup all databases that are online (sql 2000). So if a new database is added you will get a backup. This is setup as a weekly job at our site (Sunday night).
2002-12-12
363 reads
A procedure too re-attach a data( MDF ) file when the log file is missing or not recoverable.
2002-11-22
4,858 reads
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