List All Jobs and Their Schedules
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable) and the maximun duration of the job.
2002-06-20
4,288 reads
Maintenance and Management
DbSizeTracking
Monitor the long term growth of Many databases on Server-Create the table DbSizeTracking on database of choice-Create a job to run the script on weekly intervals-Query the table with section at end of script
2002-06-06
933 reads
2002-06-06
528 reads
List All Jobs and Their Schedules (SQL7.0 & 2000)
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable).
2002-06-04
1,788 reads
2002-06-04
470 reads
Eliminate Duplicates
This will find and delete all duplicate rows. You can refine the granularity of uniqueness by including more columns than just the Primary Key. If you are picky about which rows you want to delete, don't use this. Instead use the 'Find Duplicates' script I just submitted and then delete manually.
2002-05-24
1,111 reads
Find Duplicates
Find duplicates in any table, and report the number of duplicates. Enter in the table name, and the field or fieldsfor which there should only be one row for each of that field, but you suspect are more. For example, if an employee table has more than one record for an employeethis will find any […]
2002-05-24
617 reads
Script to sync all users to their respective logins
When restoring a database to a different server, this script will sync the users to the system logins. (as a relative newcomer, I'm pretty proud of this)
2002-05-23
482 reads
Check in New DDL to SourceSafe
Rather than invent (or learn) a whole new set of tools to preserve and version all DDL underneath our databases, we decided to use SourceSafe (something we're already using for all other source code). -- We've developed this VBscript to run nightly; it recreates object-level DDL in a given database and compares each object's script […]
2002-05-09
193 reads
Script to Generate Execution Permission to all Sprocs
This script generates script to give permissions to Particular user(s) to give exectue permission. This can be changed to give permission to tables, views also.
2002-05-09
236 reads
Blogs
Asking for Help Isn’t a Weakness
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
The Proof of the Backup Is in the Pudding
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
T-SQL Tuesday #204 – Are blogs still relevant?
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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Question of the Day
The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers