Script to compare 2 tables
This procedure will compare the two tables Table1 & Table2 and will display the value which is present in Table1 but not present in Table2.
2006-06-15 (first published: 2006-05-30)
431 reads
Maintenance and Management
Database Console Command : DBCC page undocumented
DBCC page was decommissioned in 7.0 according BOL. Parameters have being changed, but the call itself remains. Following script shows some reverse engineering results.
2007-06-25 (first published: 2006-05-29)
422 reads
Script to get details of enabled jobs
This script will give detials for all the enabled job including their steps/command/schedule.
2007-06-18 (first published: 2006-05-26)
895 reads
SS2K - sp_helprevlogin`
Old version, archived, that works on ss2k. Updated version works on ss2k5. NOTE: This is a Microsoft developed script, not from the contributor (Steve Jones)
2007-06-27 (first published: 2006-05-04)
896 reads
Get DBObjects with Specified Owner
A database can have objects with multiple owners. The script will give you the list of all the TABLES, VIEWS and PROCEDURES having the specified owner. Just input the owner name and it will give you the list of all the Objects with that owner. This scope of the script is limited to the TABLES, […]
2007-06-21 (first published: 2006-01-30)
298 reads
Know the JOBNAME and JOBOWNER
As an administrator it is required sometimes to list out the job owners.This is a simple script that will allow to fetch this information. By applying a filter a specific job owner list can be fetched.
2006-11-21 (first published: 2006-01-30)
137 reads
Get maintenance plans info and It's by effect jobs
I have been wonder how to get info (by query NOT EM) of all the Maintenance Plans and it's by effect jobs plus schedule. I also see people asking the same questions in different forums. Finally, I start exploring myself (with helps from others of course), here's the result.You can run it as a ad-hoc […]
2006-01-27 (first published: 2006-01-12)
302 reads
SQL 2000 Data & Log file info for all DB's
Returns information about all the data / log files on a server, such as total file size, % used & free, etc.Can be set to filter out db's you don't want to monitor.When edited to allow the "update usage", numbers reported will be more accurate.Note: if you edit to allow update usage and intend to […]
2006-01-12 (first published: 2005-12-27)
368 reads
DIff between Max length of value in CHAR type Colu
This Script finds the maximum length of a value in Character type Column.(CHAR,VARCHAR,NVARCHAR) and finds the difference between the Total lenghth and maximum value inserted
2006-01-13 (first published: 2005-12-27)
361 reads
List user's permissions
With this script you can see the permissions that every user-defined role and every user without a dbrole has.The list could get very large and hard to manage, but it helped me to build the roles of an app that didn't had any role defined.Hope it'll be usefull to someone
2006-01-02 (first published: 2005-12-08)
718 reads
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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