This script will help DBA's who wants to BCP out required tables form any database. This script can be run through as a job. Before running you have to create a table in any given database and store the table names in it, which you want to Bulk copy. Query in this procedure will check […]
2005-02-17 (first published: 2005-01-27)
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Script will drop the Default, Primary, Unique, Foreign Constraints, Index and ROWGUID on Unique Identifier data type column and finally it alters the unique identifier to varchar (38) data type. I have compile and execute the script in my database server. Script has executed successfully.
2005-01-12 (first published: 2004-12-24)
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To examine all the properties of a database is time consuming. The following script gives you a quick overview of the most important properties of all the databases on your SQL Server.
2004-12-27 (first published: 2004-12-10)
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create this SQL as a stored procedure and give user execute permissions on it store procedure. that user will be able to see all the jobs and their associated schedules but won't be able to modify, create or execute job. This is particularly a request most often aske dby developer to view jobs/schedules on production […]
2004-11-15 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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some times after restore database, you find your logins and users mapping is lossed and no user can now logon to database using application. I faced that many times. To map all your database users with master..syslogins. save this procedure in current database and execute it. All users will be mapped with logins.
2004-11-12 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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Updated Where_Am_I script to add database. This way you can park it in your master db and call it anytime you need it for another project/db.
2004-12-07 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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This script will update statistics on all user databases. The script can be created as a job from SQL Server Agent.
2004-12-03 (first published: 2004-10-27)
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sometime I need to kill an program which does not continue to process data, and i sheduled a job to do that. After lots of times' try, I made it at last.This script add a shedule to the sheduled task list, one minutes later then the current system time. You can change it by edit […]
2007-02-28 (first published: 2004-09-19)
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The level of index fragmentation is not taken into consideration. Actual level of fragmentation is assume to be proportionnal over time.Only one object can be used as the witness to drive the database size.A normally distributed database is needed for this tool to report accurate estimates. ** Example : dbo.sp__EstimateSize @UpdateUsage = true ,@ObjGuidance = […]
2004-09-16
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Because many programs I wrote depends on the SQL Agent Service and to really make sure that no one has configured this service to run manually (you see many things in life) I rely on this litle piece of code
2006-12-27 (first published: 2004-09-16)
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By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
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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