This function returns a formated calendar table. It came in handy a few times for me, so I thought it may be a good contribution. There would be a few better ways to create this function if date-part were a valid data type. It is a pretty straight-forward function. You may edit it if you […]
2006-10-05 (first published: 2006-03-29)
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This is a replacement for SP_who and modification of sp_who2. It will always list only active, nonsystem processes, and will list the number of seconds a transaction has been running for. Some transactions do not report a last batch time, so I forced a large value to display so you can see any issue with […]
2006-10-02 (first published: 2006-04-28)
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This script will give you the facility to search for Particular Data in the Database, To know where exactly that data store(Table Name and Field Information)You Have to Just chage the Name of the Database and the Search String....
2006-09-29 (first published: 2006-09-13)
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This script will create two views and select the data from the TableReferences view. This view will give list of all the foreignkeys of the selected database with its constraint name, the table name and column name(s) on which the constraint is created and the referencing table name and column name(s).
2006-09-25 (first published: 2006-08-25)
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Below script will Get SQL job status for all servers running on the same network. All you have to do is create a linked server with msdb on local machine. Executing this script will give you all job status on any number of servers. Good for an environment where a DBA had to see job […]
2006-09-20 (first published: 2006-08-25)
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Often in development environment you want to truncate all the tables to insert new data from production, but you cannot do easily as there were a bumch of Foreign Keys and triggers. Dropping all triggers and FK's and then recreating them again is a tedious job. That to dropping and recreating FK's in a particular […]
2006-09-19 (first published: 2006-08-31)
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Often the RAND() function is predictable based on the seed. This stored procedure generates a pretty good random integer because the seed itself is quite unpredictable. You can’t put this in a UDF since it is indeterminate due to the RAND and GETDATE() functions used.
2006-09-15 (first published: 2006-09-06)
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Stored procedure to return the list of columns of the primary key for a table. The name of the column for the result set is the name of the primary key for the table.
2006-09-14 (first published: 2006-09-07)
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For those that do not have SQL 2005 Management Studio, this utility reads from or writes to the SQL Enterprise Manager configuration. It can handle a Server Group hierarchy up to 5 levels deep. Usage instructions are included in the script.Run with cscript.exe.NOTE: Server registrations using SQL (not Windows) authentication write out the password in […]
2006-09-13 (first published: 2006-09-12)
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Troubleshooting intermitten connectivity issues can be difficult. One approach is to repeatedly test connecting to SQL Server outside of an existing application in order to verify if a server-wide intermitten issue is occurring. This script is used to test remote connectivity to a SQL Server. The script loops in one minute intervals (adjust as needed). […]
2006-09-04 (first published: 2006-08-08)
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I run this code on SQL Server 2022.
CREATE TABLE Drink
(
drinkid INT NOT NULL
CONSTRAINT DrinkPK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
drinkname VARCHAR(20),
rating NUMERIC(2, 1)
)
GO
INSERT INTO Drink
(
drinkid,
drinkname,
rating
)
VALUES
(1, 'Margarita', 4.5),
(2, 'Mojito', 4.3),
(3, 'Old Fashioned', 4.7),
(4, 'Martini', 4.4),
(5, 'Cosmopolitan', 4.2)
GO
ALTER INDEX drinkpk ON dbo.drink DISABLE
GO
SELECT * FROM dbo.Drink
GO
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