Generate Dates Between Supplied Range - MSQL 2005

Display Dates as rows between Specified Date Range.

Ping Linked Server

This Stored Procedure serves to verify if some error with the source of data of a Linked Server exists. In this in case,  I will use a mdb that already exists in the Office - Northwind.mdb. If we do a Link Server  concerned to this mdb, this is generated without errors . But when this […]

List index information for all databases

This SQL script returns a recordset with all the index information for all tables for all databases in a SQL server(instance)

Drive Space Usage/Free Monitoring Script

Backup any/all Databases (Native AND LiteSpeed friendly)

This script can run backups for any/all databases using both SQL native and Quest's SQL LiteSpeed product. It includes options for Complete (Full), Differential, and Transaction Log backups (File and File Group backups will be coming soon). It will also clean up old backups and the msdb tables accordingly.See script for a full parameter list.NOTE: […]

Data Dictionary - SQL 2005

I know there are several scripts out there showing you on how to create a data dictionary... I created this script for creating a data dictionary for SQL 2005. It stores the data into a table in the database that you choose. The script only stores the table name, column name, default value of the […]

Encrypt DTSRUN command

Encrypting a DTSRUN command in T-SQL

Find Nth Occurrence of Character Function (Set Based)

This function was originally contributed by other visitors. Below is an example of a set based approach to the problem. This script requires a numbers table (see SqlServerCentral article http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/mcoles/2547.asp for more details)Please note that this code is uses SQL2005 featuresEnjoy!Robert Caryhttp://tsqlland.blogspot.com

Script to output dbcc inputbuffer adding spid info

The following script will allow the user to get information from all spids that have a program name associated with them. That is event info out of dbcc inputbuffer. Additional columns may be added and used in the table through simple modifications of the script. I just found it useful for troubleshooting and setting up […]

Analysis Services 2000 - Service Pack Version

This script utilizes an undocumented extended procedure xp_regread to check the version of Microsoft Analysis Services' service pack version