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Notification of schema changes - Advanced

This script modifies another excellent script written by SHAS3. The original script examines tables for changes and sends an email. This modification examines all stored procedures, tables, indexes, etc. in ALL databases or just the CURRENT database. If changes are detected, the script has the option to either email or log to a table that […]

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2005-10-26 (first published: )

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Generate Upsert Script

This script outputs the TSQL code to do perform an 'Upsert'.It depends on both the source & target tables having the same structure and rows being uniquely identified with a single field.Three variables need to be updated prior to execution of this script:@SourceTable: Table containing the data to be upserted@TargetTable = Table to be upserted […]

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2005-10-25 (first published: )

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Replace script extension PRC with SQL

When you tell Enterprise Manager to "Create one file per object" when scripting objects from the database it gives those scripts a PRC extension.Unfortunately SQL Query Analyser defaults to a .SQL extension.The following DOS command renames all .PRC files to .SQL

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2005-10-24 (first published: )

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VBScript to register lots of SQL Servers at once

This script will create SQL Server top level groups in EM and then register a bunch of SQL Servers in their respective groups.The script maybe modified to as needed if the user does not wish to create groups. The script currently reads the list of servers tobe registered from a SQL Server database but could […]

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2005-10-21 (first published: )

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Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation (Revised

Getting "Subquery returned more than 1 value" error on cursors. Changed the following in a couple of places and it runs now. systypes.[name], --(SELECT systypes.[name] FROM systypes WHERE xtype = syscolumns.xtype), Mny thanks to whomever wrote the script. Saved me a bunch of effort."This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes […]

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2005-10-19 (first published: )

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Time Hour Dimension

Use this script as part of your data warehouse projects. I created this script based on previous postings of the Date/Time Dimension. I wanted a dimension that does hours, minutes and seconds. Includes military and standard hours.

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2005-10-13 (first published: )

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SQL 2K SMTP mail on Windows 2K

SP_SQLSMTPMail is an OLE automation implementation of the CDOSYS dll for Windows 2000 which utilizes a network SMTP server rather than an Exchange server/Outlook client. The stored procedure functions similar to xp_sendmail including the ability to run a query and attach the results. No MAPI profile is required. It is also a working, detailed example […]

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2005-10-12 (first published: )

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Add users to Windows NT Group

This scripts adds the users to the specified Windows NT Group.This will be helpful if we want to give the access to group of users to a sql server, which is runing with Windows Authentication. Create a NT group and give the access on SQL and run this script it adds the user into the […]

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2005-10-10 (first published: )

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