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)
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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)
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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)
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Extracting words of a string with removal of unwanted punctuations.This is a flexible function to extract words from a string and tested on both SQL 2000 and 2005As you see the logic of this function is very simple. Maybe the update statement seems strange to beginners because it does not update any field of underlying […]
2007-09-26 (first published: 2007-05-26)
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I saw a script on here that outputs commands to the messages pane in Query Analyser. When run, these scripts output row counts for all your tables. This script does the same thing, but in one step.Tested on SQL Server 2000.
2007-09-25 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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This script was created for an Oracle to SQL 2005 migration. It creates a table, and then populates it with the record counts for each table in a given schema. (You will need to replace the xxxx text with your schema name for it to work). I prefer populating a table with this data, then […]
2007-09-24 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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Functuion Which returns splitted values from the string format specified in example
2007-09-21
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this is a quick stored procedure I put together when trying to find a log for a particular day (xp_enumerrorlogs returns the archive is as a varchar, so 1 is followed by 11, 12 etc rather than 2) sp_display_errorlogs with no parms returns output in archive id order. if the parm 'size' is passed in, […]
2007-09-21
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After migrating an Oracle database to SQL 2005, all the identity values were not properly set. This script goes through and sets them all to 1 greater than the max value in the identity column.
2007-09-21 (first published: 2007-05-24)
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In a recent project, I need to record audit trail for some tables (for Insert, Update and Delete).Using SQL 2005's XML datatype and the XML support it is very covenienet to use triggers to perform the audit trail requirement. I create one table (Table_Audit) to hold all audit trial data. One stored procedure is created […]
2007-09-20
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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