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Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation(Revised)

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This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all used fields), stored procedures (including used fields and parameters), database users, database settings and server settings.This script has been cobbled together from several others found on this site, so they deserve the recognition, not me πŸ™‚Simply execute it […]

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2005-09-16 (first published: )

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check rerun status of failed/cancelled jobs

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There are times when you have mulitple job failures and need to find out in a quick way which jobs/steps failed and what their rerun statuses are.Β  This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.

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2004-10-12 (first published: )

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Report to return all foreign key information

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The purpose of this task is to generate a report showing all your foreign keys. Generally this would be consideredΒ  nothing special only that this script also returns the tables, column foreign key constraint name and the relationship properties.Here's how to do it:First of all copy the script and paste it in Query AnalyzerStep 1: […]

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2004-07-16 (first published: )

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UPDATE STATISTICS job

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This stored precedure can be used within a scheduled job to UPDATE STATISTICS on a data during off hours.I have commented out a parameter used to limit the size of tables to UPDATE STATISTICS.Β  Script uses the Northwind database.Have a GREAT day!!

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2004-07-14 (first published: )

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Grant Execute Permissions to All Procedures

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This procedures grants execute permissions to all the stored procedures in a database to the role/user supplied as the parameter. the default is Execute_StoredProcedure. Execute this procedure local to the database you need to grant permissions.

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2004-07-22 (first published: )

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Get back list of failed dts packages

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This is a fairly basic script that gets back a list of steps within dts packages that failed within the last 24 hours. The reason I wrote this script, is that if you call a dts package from a dts package on another server via a scheduled job on that same server, both the package […]

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2004-09-13 (first published: )

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Yet another restore script usp_restore

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usp_restore - This will restore a backup performed with SQL LiteSpeed from DBAssocatesIT or by the standard backup database routines in SQL Server Please check below the declarations to find the user settable options for this script If the target database is currently in a loading status or cannot be read from this restore it […]

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2004-10-25 (first published: )

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yet another backup script using litespeed or native backup

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Updated! Now supports both SQL Litespeed and native backup commands in one script! Several new bug fixes please see the header of the script. Error messages to add are now at the bottom of the script! This stored procedure will backup a single database or all databases it will also perform ether a full, diff, […]

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2004-10-26 (first published: )

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Restoring On Top II

I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:

-- run yesterday
CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2
GO
USE DNRTest2
GO
CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT)
GO
Today, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today
USE Master
BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak'
GO
RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACE
What happens?

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