Check owners, collations and backups
A script to check the owners, collations and backups on the server.
2012-04-16 (first published: 2007-10-19)
2,642 reads
Scripts
2012-04-13 (first published: 2007-10-19)
3,404 reads
Restore Server/Database users/roles
Restore server/database users and roles from another server when we are restoring databases to another server.
2012-04-12 (first published: 2007-10-23)
3,120 reads
Auto compression all indexs on all online db
Auto compression of index, if index includes > 1 million rows.
2012-04-11 (first published: 2012-03-19)
932 reads
Remove Logins Script
Generates a script to remove logins from a SQL Instance. Handles cases where logins own schemas.
2012-04-05 (first published: 2012-03-26)
1,364 reads
2012-03-30 (first published: 2008-04-21)
3,223 reads
Generate index on foreign key columns
Script find all foreign key without index in database and create new one for them.
2012-03-29 (first published: 2008-01-25)
3,402 reads
Select, Update, Delete, Insert etc.. in many servers using 1 query
Query Servers using 1 sql statement. Will make your job easy!!!
2012-03-28 (first published: 2008-01-16)
3,365 reads
DBCC Reindex with Statistics Information and table name optional
Reindex all tables, showing statistics before and after reindexing, table name optional.
2012-03-27 (first published: 2008-01-30)
3,121 reads
2012-03-26 (first published: 2008-01-23)
3,250 reads
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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