Generate Index for Foreign Keys

This script generate spool with create index for all foreign key.

Retreiving all the Table Information from SQL

The Query will enable you to retrieve all the Tables in the Database .The Output of the Query will list all the User Tables along with the Column Names and the Sort order of the Columns .The Query will also return as to whether the Columns in the table are with allow null option or […]

Checking SQL Server Edition and Service Pack level

Overcome BCP limitations for output to CSV file

This is an example to overcome short comings when using BCP to create a 'proper' CSV file. The view vw_Customers_RAW is used in order to provide a method of creating the column heading row and to enclose columns with embedded comma with double quotes, which are not options in BCP. There are more generic methods […]

Share Permissions

Use this Perl script to produce an audit report of both share permissions and NTFS permissions of the shared folders. To report share permissions:Use shareperms.pl -p -SMyServer1 to report on a single server.Or use shareperms.pl -p -SMyServer1,MyServer2 for multiple servers.You can also use a text file as input: shareperms.pl -p -CServers.txtTo report NTFS permissions use […]

SQLServerRegistrationBackup.bat

Backs up the SQL Server EM registration from the registry. Assumes that EM is configured to save common, not by user/independently. I recommend changing EM to Store locally for all users, (not independently) and create a weekly scheduled job to backup the HKLM..\..\Registered Servers X branch.Configure EM to store settings for the local machine, all […]

MS SQL Server role db_create_dts

For several times i had faced a problem of having “special” users, that need to create and run their own DTSs. I produced this script after implementing all the steps needed to allow normal users to do and run their DTSs.I hope it will be helpful at least for some of you.

UDF: Estimating the size of a table

In database planning and design it is essential to plan out how much HD space you are going to need to store your data. If you use BOL and do a search for "Estimating Table Size" you get three articles: - Estimating the size of a table - Estimating the size of a table with […]

move all indexes to a secondary file group

Move all (or chosen) standard indexes from your primary file group to a secondary file group (hopefully located on a seperate array)excludes clustered indexes, statistics and indexes associated with a primary keywhen you run it - set the debug to 1 to identify what the script will move, set it to 0 to actually perform […]

Script to compare 2 tables

This procedure will compare the two tables Table1 & Table2 and will display the value which is present in Table1 but not present in Table2.