This script will drop and recreated all indexes in a database within a transaction. The script will also add standard nameing conventions to the index names. Any duplicated indexes are removed.
2007-07-20 (first published: 2006-10-24)
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Quick and accurate method to get the row count of each table in a given database. Execution time is dependent on the number of rows in each table.-- Girish (gvphubli)
2007-07-20
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the following scripts helps in finding top 5 missing indexes using the new feature of DMV available in SQl Server 2005
2007-07-19 (first published: 2006-10-23)
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This script will delete the duplicate records without using cursor
2007-07-18
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Show line of code executing - more details than dbcc inputbuffer
2007-07-18 (first published: 2006-10-16)
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2007-07-17 (first published: 2006-10-12)
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I have written stored procedure which simply read each row one by one and update the some column in same table.SP is running fine in SQL Server 2000 and completed within 5 minutes (around 5 million rows)But same SP in SQL Server 2005, its taking around more than one hour (for same number of rows)Note: […]
2007-07-16
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Sometimes you need to calculate a running sum. Uses of this include adding a Month-To-Date column to a query of recent orders. I haven't seen anyone publish how to do this before (using this method).This query works by using the Row_Number() function and recursive query capability of SQL 2005.
2007-07-16
548 reads
Hope this is helpful to someone. This script will create a table and a stored procedure in the master database to gather and store table info for all datbases. The sp uses a temp table to hold the results returned by sp_spaceused, then transfers the information to the permanent table DatabaseTableSizes and adds the database […]
2007-07-16 (first published: 2006-10-11)
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2007-07-13 (first published: 2006-10-11)
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If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers