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
808 reads
Backup and restore
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
968 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
439 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
1,041 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
791 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
1,097 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
989 reads
Restore last backup to a different server/database
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
790 reads
Load Backup History from Backup File
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
330 reads
"RESTORE..... WITH MOVE" all databases on a server
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
1,824 reads
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers