Maintenance and Management

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Find Tables that need Statistics Update

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Indexes and table Statistics play a big role in an OLTP database for better query performance. Maintaining statistics on a weekly basis is important but a heavily updated database tables need more emphasis on Statistics and frequent updates. Instead of trying to issue “sp_updatestats” for the entire database, you can choose tables which are heavily […]

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2004-02-17

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SQL Server Log Reader

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This script outputs the data in chronological order from the current SQL Server log.Output columns are: Log Entry Time, Event Source, Log Entry Text. This data matches with the data that can be seen under the SQL Server logs view in Enterprise Manager.The script is stand alone, but could easily be parameterised to work as […]

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2004-02-10

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Global String Search & Replace In All DB Fields

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Stored procedure to search every field in the database for a string literal.  Run the stored procedure in Query analyser, which will output sql statements to do the search.  The output of these searches will be the update sql, which again should be pasted into a query analyser window.  As the stored procedures do not […]

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2004-02-10

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List User 's Permissions in Database

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Do you ever need to look for a given user's permissions for security reasons or move the permissions for that user from test environment to production? This is a script, which will generate print statements, which can be use to view/grant, the permissions of all dbo objects, which the given user has, which is not […]

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2004-08-16 (first published: )

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List User Permissions

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Do you ever need to look for a given user's permissions for security reasons or move the permissions for that user from test environment to production? This is a script, which will generate print statements, which can be use to view/grant, the permissions of all dbo objects, which the given user has, which is not […]

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2004-07-08 (first published: )

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Slipstream parameters

What parameters are needed to enable a slipstream installation for setup.exe (SQL Server setup)?

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