Row count of all tables
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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Finding missing indexes in sql server 2005
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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Delete Duplicate Records without using Cursor
This script will delete the duplicate records without using cursor
2007-07-18
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Show Line of Code Executing in Procedure
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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Performance problem in SQL Server 2005
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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Running Sum Query
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
546 reads
User Tables with Size all DBs (SQL 2005 Only)
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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Analyse tables for replication ( sql 2000 )
I have a requirement deploy transactional replication for an existing database which wasn't designed with replication in mind. I need to script/deploy based upon PK's, identity columns and timestamp columns. This query allows me to gather and save the information enabling me to generate the various scripts to replicate my database, replication through T SQL […]
2007-07-12 (first published: 2006-10-10)
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