2011-09-05 (first published: 2007-01-25)
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Maintenance and Management
Alter Index with online rebuild - SQL 2005
This is an Alter Index script i made up from the one found in BOL and some other scripts we had. You need to create a table to hold the fragmentation data and it has a date column so you can track historical data. You can also add a db_mail part at the end to […]
2007-08-10 (first published: 2006-11-30)
2,126 reads
Database,Drive,Data file growth monitor
This script is to monitor drive\database file space. There are variations of this script. The one posted has 2 parts. The frist is one that loops through the databases on a particular server calling the second which is the proc that gathers the information.
2007-08-01 (first published: 2006-11-21)
1,183 reads
Kill Connections to Specific Database - Updated
Quick & Easy way to kill connections to specific database
2007-07-27 (first published: 2006-11-10)
868 reads
FULL SERVER DOCUMENTATION -- HTML and revised
Revise note: 1. reformat the result into HTML page.2. added script to find sql server service account, sqlserver agent account.3. added script to find sql server authentication mode.4. added script to find sql server startup parameters5. added table of contents and hyperlinks.6. add DOS batch script to run the script on all servers. TRY […]
2007-02-20 (first published: 2006-11-10)
1,442 reads
Show when all jobs were running
This script returns a result set showing which jobs were running at what point during a given day.One column is returned for each Job, and one row for each discrete portion of the day (configured by @TimeGranuality). A value of 1 indicates that the job was running at that point in time, 0 otherwise.Particularly useful […]
2007-07-26 (first published: 2006-11-10)
538 reads
Kill Connections to Specific Database
Ever needed to drop all connections to a database? Here is an easy way to do it.
2006-11-24 (first published: 2006-11-08)
599 reads
Remove Exec Permissions To Extended Stored Procs
I created this script to simplify the process of restricting access to high risk extended stored procedures. It will find any user or role which has execute permissions on any of the stored procedures in the "#High_Risk_Stored_Procs" temp table and will generate the relevant revoke statements to remove those permissions.The current list of stored procedures […]
2006-11-27 (first published: 2006-11-07)
671 reads
LongestRunningQueries.vbs
This SQL 2005-only VBS script will show the longest-running queries on a given server, complete with graphical .sqlplan when clicked. Results go to a web page, viewed from the local machines's temp directory.Each row of the resulting table has the session ID, the currently running statement of the batch, a link to a text file […]
2007-07-24 (first published: 2006-10-30)
375 reads
User Tables with Size all DBs (SQL 2005 Only)
Hope this is helpful to someone. This script will create a table and a stored procedure in the master database to gather and store table info for all datbases. The sp uses a temp table to hold the results returned by sp_spaceused, then transfers the information to the permanent table DatabaseTableSizes and adds the database […]
2007-07-16 (first published: 2006-10-11)
289 reads
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Question of the Day
The string_agg function
We create the following table and then insert some records in it:
create table t1 ( id int primary key, category char(1) not null, product varchar(50) ); insert into t1 values (1, 'A', 'Product 1'), (2, 'A', 'Product 2'), (3, 'A', 'Product 3'), (4, 'B', 'Product 4'), (5, 'B', 'Product 5');What happens if we execute the following query in both Sql Server and PostgreSQL?
select id,
category,
string_agg(product, ';')
over (partition by category order by id
rows between unbounded preceding and unbounded following) as stragg
from t1; See possible answers