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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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Comprehensive HTML Database Documentation (Revised

I took the script from the email you sent me and tested on my machine but i had to correct a few thing because our system is case sensitive. Thanks for the anonymous that wrote that script..... 😉 "This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all […]

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2005-10-07 (first published: )

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Complex JOIN example (involving FULL, LEFT OUTER)

A table Users contains a Create date column.A table AccessLog contains StartTime column.Both are date time fields.Users table contains one row per user and AccesLog contains as many rows as the number oftimes the user Logged into the system.The requirement is:to produce a single table that has two different COUNTs... one column will have the […]

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2005-10-06 (first published: )

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Automated Profiler trace import

This stored procedure was written to complement the automated profiler trace create procedure (should be here somewhere - check the scripts).Bascially, given the database (sample script to create the database included, but you may want to personalize it), this stored procedure will import the tracefile content into the table, which is indexed on expected search […]

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2005-10-03 (first published: )

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Adding new column with DEFAULT II

Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp
CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL)

INSERT INTO #tmp (id) 
SELECT gs.value
  FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value

ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value

SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1

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