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 🙂Simply execute it […]
2005-09-16 (first published: 2004-09-02)
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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. This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.
2004-10-12 (first published: 2004-07-21)
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The purpose of this task is to generate a report showing all your foreign keys. Generally this would be considered 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: […]
2004-07-16 (first published: 2004-07-02)
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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. Script uses the Northwind database.Have a GREAT day!!
2004-07-14 (first published: 2004-07-02)
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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.
2004-07-22 (first published: 2004-06-21)
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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 […]
2004-09-13 (first published: 2004-06-16)
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This script will help in removing the duplicate values from a table.
2004-06-15
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This SP gets all the table names with the column names and data types, datalength. All the existing constrains on the table and column levels along with the Primary and foreign keys and table references
2004-06-01
241 reads
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 […]
2004-10-25 (first published: 2004-05-27)
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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, […]
2004-10-26 (first published: 2004-05-27)
994 reads
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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