Creating Backup Devices
This Stored Procedure create backup devices for all user databases. You can customize path, name standard and type of device.See Creating Job Backup
2002-09-12
542 reads
Backup and restore
spEasyBackup
Database backup made simple. You dont even have to pass any parameters if desired. It will all be handled for you.Capable of Net Send status notifications and writes status message to Windows event log.Side Effects:When not passing any @database params the the backup is done of the database where the proc resides. That means if […]
2002-09-06
571 reads
Script to create a standby database server(new).
New feature to relocate files on the secondary server has been added to this script. If you don't need this feature please use my other script that is posted on this website.Run this script on a secondary SQL Server to replicate the data of all the user databases from the primary server every 15 minutes. […]
2002-08-09
296 reads
Script to create a standby database server.
This script will do a full backup and transaction log backup of all the user database on the primary server and restore it over to the secondary server. The full backup/restore runs once every day and the transaction log backup/restore runs every minutes. Just provide the name of the primary and the secondary server and […]
2002-07-12
505 reads
Procedure to export/import data using BCP
this procedure is an interface to bcp it gets database name,table name , file and path,,mode E/I for export/import and seperator character user and password and exports/imports text files from / to SQLSERVER
2002-07-10
1,424 reads
Job to script all Jobs
There are various utilities for scripting MS SQL Server objects : Tables , Procedures , Functions .... etc ...Small piece of code that will allow you to script all jobs from your SQL Server using SQL DMO object.
2002-06-17
1,309 reads
List all Databases and Last Full Backups
This script will create a procedure to list all databases on the server (except tempdb), the last time the database was backed up (database backup, not log backups), and a comment which could be customized. For my purposes, I flag any database which hasn't been backed up in the last week. This provides a quick […]
2002-06-14
3,141 reads
Take a Cold Backup without shutting down SQL.
Set the Autoclose database option to True and perform a cold backup of your data files without even shutting down the SQL Server Services.
2002-04-25
942 reads
Kill all Connections
There are times you want to kill all the connections in a database. This would do that trick. This can be very useful when you replace a database regularly and some connections still exist so your automated restore fails. You can issue this command to kill all the connections before issuing a restore command.
2002-04-17
2,509 reads
Backup a database
This procedure when executed with the correct parameters, backs up a database in the specified directory pathUsage :exec USP_BACKUPDATABASE databasename, directory_path
2002-03-12
587 reads
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The Ending Substring
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