2008-09-30 (first published: 2008-07-24)
889 reads
Scripts
Getting schemas for your tables
A short script you can incorporate into any 2005/2008 code to get the full schema.table.
2008-09-29
665 reads
Script to return Rows count from table using sp_ExecuteSQL
Script to return Rows count from table using sp_ExecuteSQL
2008-09-26 (first published: 2008-07-20)
1,545 reads
Using Triggers for Detective Work
When a value is changed that causes an error, finding what caused the error can be tricky. Here an application was truncating a column. The trigger helped to identify the culprit.
2008-09-25 (first published: 2008-07-17)
1,403 reads
Checking fragmented indexes
A quick script to check for fragmentation in a database and generate a list of defrag statments you can run.
2008-09-24
2,479 reads
2008-09-19 (first published: 2008-07-20)
1,495 reads
2008-09-18 (first published: 2008-07-15)
709 reads
2008-09-16
339 reads
Create string from table
This simple script retrieves a range of values from a table and presents the results as a string.
2008-09-15 (first published: 2008-07-16)
1,626 reads
Get DBMail information
get the profile name and the account name etc about the dbmails created on the server
2008-09-12 (first published: 2008-07-13)
1,003 reads
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