- a simple and handy script that finds what differences might exists between the fields in your database that have the same name.I was wondering why my execution plans where different for tables with the same field names and the same indexes,statistics etc... because the syetem was converting my fields in the WHERE statement. - […]
2003-06-08
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Retrieve SQL Server port number from registry. Useful for SQL Servers running named instances or non-standard TCP port numbers.
2003-06-04
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This script will list all the databases on your server (SQL2000 only) as well as their sizes and some key properties. Very useful for keeping rogue developers under control 🙂
2003-05-17
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This script obtains the fragmentation in all databases on a SQL Server 2000 database server.You must firt create a table(Fragmentacion) on a database (Sistemas) to store the information obtained.
2003-05-16
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This script takes 2 samples over a 10 second period to identify what spids are using most resources. It's probably not 100% accurate but it's helped me out a few times.
2003-05-15
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This is a followup to the script submitted by srallapalli. One can return a record set of all tables in a database using the following:USE MyDatabaseSELECT so.name AS TableName, sc.name AS ColumnName, st.name AS ColumnDatatype, convert(int, sc.length) AS ColumnLength FROM syscolumns sc, sysobjects so , systypes st WHERE so.type='U' AND OBJECTPROPERTY(so.id,'ismsshipped') = 0 AND sc.id=so.id […]
2003-05-10
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For each user database remove all the freespace and truncate the transaction log. The script will use the system catalog to produce a list of databases. If you want to excluce a database add the excluded db name to the 'not in' list below.
2003-05-07
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For security and auditing purpose, in some cases there would be a need of tracking transaction detail on a table.The following script achive this using Triggers. The auditedevents will be stored in a separate table.
2003-04-19
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It is a painful experience for all us administrators to truncate logs regularly. I just created a job to executesp_msforeachdb "use ?; backup log ? with truncate_only ; dbcc shrinkfile(2,5)"on all the servers at frequent intervals. It has saved me a lot of time. hope it helps you too.n.b: I assume that file id 2 […]
2003-04-18
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This procedure is just another approach for getting a list of tables defined in a database, ordered by dependency on other tables based on foreign key relationship.I used it for a deployment process, where the TABLE create scripts must be executed in the correct order,because the foreign key constraints are specified in the create script […]
2003-04-18
380 reads
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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) GOToday, 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 REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers