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Job Status Revised.

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This procedure queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules(if applicable),how often the interval occurs(every X hours,min.,days,etc), the maximun duration, last duration,last status   of the job.This is a script that I modified and added to from M.Pearson.

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2003-12-16

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SQL Server DB Size Report

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This script is similar in style to my previous script SQL Server Job Status Report, but this script generates an HTML report on the size of all databases on a specific SQL Server instance. The report consists of several sections: a summary report on the size of all databases; a summary report on the size […]

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2003-12-04

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SQL Server Job Status Report

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This script generates an HTML report on the status of all jobs on a specific SQL Server instance. The report consists of several sections: a summary report of jobs that have passed, failed, been cancelled, or whose status is unknown; a detailed report of the status of each job.The script is designed to be included […]

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2003-12-01

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Monitor space used for disks, DBs, tables and filegroups

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I pieced this script together from solutions I found on this and from Brian Knight's excellent book. It creates 3 tables: - tblDriveLogs. Collects free drivespace info for each drive for each time the script is run. - tblIndexLogs. Collects info on spaceused for each index and table. Please note that when only af single […]

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2003-11-26

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User-defined data type dependencies

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MSSQLServer has got sp_depends system sp to display the dependencies for a stored procedure, table and view.  sp_depends does not support to display the User-defined data type dependencies.  For custom database, we will create user defined data types (UDDT) and add this UDDT to a column/variable in a table/stored procedure.  This sp (UDTDepends) will help […]

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2003-10-30

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User tables documentation - HTML format

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It creates documentation for all user tables in a specific database. A server name/ database name was added on the top of the HTML file also a column datatype field was added to the HTML file. Now the @strHTML can have 8000 chars, before only 4000 - still for tables with a lot of columns […]

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2003-10-27

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SQL Server Error Log Manager

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Provides a method to regularly recycle the sql server error logs based on a given file size.  If the current log file is larger than that size, then the current log is closed and a new log created.This proc takes one parameter, @MaxFileSize, which is the target file size.  This parameter defaults to 10 MB. […]

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2003-10-27

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Know all Database sizes in a server.

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We can know how much space a database is occupied in hard disk by using sp_spaceused function. If we want to find all database sizes at a time, we have to provide use  and sp_spaceused for all databases. It takes some time to write all those T-sql statments. My script will find each and every […]

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2003-09-16

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