Returns the datatype, table name and field name for all user tables in the current SQL Server 2005 database. Results are sorted by type, table and field.
2007-01-08 (first published: 2006-12-05)
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Use this script to figure out the current age of a person or object. It also takes leap year birthdates into consideration. You can also use this to find out the age of something at a particular point of time.
2007-01-04 (first published: 2006-12-19)
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This is just an update which fix a small bug (0 day backup bug with SQL Backup)
2007-01-03 (first published: 2006-12-19)
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I find it so annoying to format dates. Sometimes I want to include the timestamp, but if it is a midnight time stamp, the time is irrelevant. Sending in a datetime will return either the date string or a date string with a timestamp up to the seconds with either AM or PM.
2007-01-02 (first published: 2006-12-20)
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Checks the default file locations for your data and log files. If not set, it sets them to the specified values. This is written for a SQL 2005 default instance. Registry paths may be different for SQL 2000 or named instances.The script can be easily modified to update it if the current value is set […]
2007-01-01 (first published: 2006-12-21)
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Do you have more than 10 sql servers you must manage? Most DBA s do, I have over 120 sql instances to manage. Before I used to use ISQL/OSQL in a batch to execute a command on all these instances. It works but not very nice. Below is the code I use to collect information […]
2006-12-28 (first published: 2006-10-16)
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Because many programs I wrote depends on the SQL Agent Service and to really make sure that no one has configured this service to run manually (you see many things in life) I rely on this litle piece of code
2006-12-27 (first published: 2004-09-16)
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Procedure to help find missing constraints when comparing two databases that are supposed to be the same. SP has ability to show all constraints per database, and the ability to generate create scripts to make adding the missing constraints easier.
2006-12-26 (first published: 2002-03-12)
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When gathering SQL server statistics on ALL our Active SQL servers the script was failing sometime when one of our servers was not reachable for one reason or another.This script is checking if the LINKED SERVER is up and running before executing the "gathering statistics" script for this particular server.
2006-12-25 (first published: 2006-09-29)
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Most of the time even after executing dbcc dbreindex script on database you won't see much improvement in application/DB performance. Thats because dbreindex creates statistics for all tables but it executes sp_updatestats which is like sample statistics. To get the maximum performance we had to execute Update statistics with fullscan on table. This simple will […]
2006-12-22 (first published: 2006-10-23)
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