setting full text search using script
This script will help you to understand how to set & use full text search.
2007-10-18
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Scripts
MOM SCDWgroom Enhancement
It might not be useful now, but if you ever wanted to downsize the amount of data that you keep in your datawarehouse, good luck. This will help you do that. This job is set to shrink it down to 120 days, but you can adjust it as you like. Runs again in 5 day […]
2007-10-16 (first published: 2007-07-26)
550 reads
How to empty database
Sometimes you need to empty the content of database. Following script can do that for you.
2007-10-15
4,894 reads
Automate Scripting with SQL Scripter
SQL Scripter is an open-source console tool for generating SQL Server DDL. Written in C# using .NET 2.0, SQL Scripter provides front-ends for MSBuild, NAnt and the Windows command line. Each front end supports syntax for specifying which types of database objects to script, including all objects of a type or directly named instances.SQL Scripter […]
2007-10-12 (first published: 2007-07-31)
6,284 reads
usp_ShowOrphanUsers - SQL 2k
Check Orphaned logins ie, not associated with any database on the current instance.
2007-10-11
893 reads
Find Column Usage
When changing schema or modifying an application it is often necessary to determine when a column from a specific table is used. This procedure produces a formatted report (when outputting from query analyzer or management studio in text mode) that specifies all of the procedures, views, functions and triggers that use the designated table.column.
2007-10-10 (first published: 2007-07-19)
7,435 reads
Auto Auditing on Tables
This is something that I find very useful and saves me a lot of time.This procedure needs to be created on the Database that holds the table that you wish to Audit. This procedure when called will create an audit table based on your source table in a database of your choice. All update/delete and […]
2007-10-03 (first published: 2007-06-20)
9,272 reads
Creating BCH Files for Veritas Direct to Tape
This script was written to solve a problem where we needed to dynamically create bch files for Veritas Backups direct to tape backups. We needed to parse the sysdatabases daily and create the bch files that veritas would use to backup each server and database. This SQL Script uses xp_cmdshell to call a windows shell […]
2007-10-02 (first published: 2007-06-18)
466 reads
create an insert statement
Many times we are required to write lenghty insert statements for tables with many columns. This script will create an insert statement for u.It takes 2 parameters first tbale name and second the ordinal positions of the columns seperated by ','for example USP_GenerateInsert 'TabName' ,'1,2,3,4,5'Hope this is Helpful
2007-10-01 (first published: 2007-06-17)
1,751 reads
Change DTS package owner
This simple script is useful if you have a lot of scripts owned by developers, and you want to re-assign them all in one go to SA or any other login. Note the section which produces a rollback if you have any problems after the re-assign
2007-09-27 (first published: 2007-06-01)
2,395 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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