Generate Script to create all secondary indexes for a database. I have included the ability to generate online indexes if possible and the ability to move to another file group.
2011-09-23 (first published: 2008-07-05)
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A quick procedure to check which full recovery databases have not had a tran log backup in the given period (default is 7 days). This could mean that the recovery mode might need changing or the transaction log backup jobs need investigating.
2011-09-22 (first published: 2007-08-03)
1,729 reads
A set of user defined functions used to calculate the number of business or working hours (excluding the non working hours) that have passed since a certain point of time.
2011-09-21 (first published: 2007-11-20)
3,198 reads
2011-09-20 (first published: 2008-01-11)
2,536 reads
Ensure all your databases have standardised options by running this script weekly.
2011-09-19 (first published: 2007-12-17)
2,168 reads
Just one way of testing for a linked server based on data within your database.
2011-09-16 (first published: 2007-08-07)
2,656 reads
2011-09-15 (first published: 2011-09-05)
2,941 reads
Recently one of my friend was doing some investigation in a new/unknown database and had really hard time locating the primary key – foreign key relations. Like it’s really tough to locate these relations when not enforced at database level in terms of primary key and foreign key constraints. But generally all database developers keep […]
2011-09-14 (first published: 2007-08-15)
2,839 reads
Delete files on a fileshare leaving behind files not older than n-days.
2011-09-13 (first published: 2008-04-02)
10,112 reads
2011-09-12 (first published: 2011-09-02)
1,530 reads
This month’s blogging party is hosted by Jeff Ianucci – his challenge is to...
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I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers