An easy script that gives you the information of all non-system databases, its size and all the configuration options that you can get individually with DATABASEPROPERTYEX function.
2005-09-01 (first published: 2005-08-25)
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There are many ways to format dates, and rather that reinvent the wheel each time I've found it helpful to have a user defined function always available. As a function it of courses processes on each row, and to enable the most flexibility the formatting style is passed simply as a parameter. Year month and […]
2005-08-31 (first published: 2005-08-25)
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This script helps you synchronizing ALL orphaned database users to syslogins of the new database server. To run it, pass the target database name in on the first line.
2005-08-29 (first published: 2005-08-27)
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I made this Query because we fix databases localy on a workstation (we have no sql server) but when backup up the server they need to be deleted localy that could sometimes take a while.U can run this Query from the QA or ad it as a Job it's possible to run it from an […]
2005-08-26 (first published: 2005-08-19)
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This procedure will COPY an Enterprise Manager SINGLE DIAGRAM object between databases on a given SQL Server.This procedure takes in a source DB name, a Dest DB name, and the Diagram name.(Exec diagram_copy 'SOURCE_DB', 'DEST_DB', 'DIAGRAM NAME')This procedure DOES NOT have to be placed in either of the databases, you may run it from a […]
2005-08-25 (first published: 2005-08-22)
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This scripts creates a view which will returns all the indexes and columns covered in the index for all the tables in a database.It returns only the user created indexes. Removes the statistics created on table (where indid > 0).
2005-08-24 (first published: 2005-08-23)
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This script will remove all the spids from a particular and allow you restore a database to a different location. The path of dump can be local or remote. It is very useful for quickly restoring a copy of production for testing purposes.
2005-08-22 (first published: 2005-08-16)
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Pads a string on either with either leading or trailing characters. You specify the direction, the tolal string length and the character to pad with.Error conditions return null
2005-08-19 (first published: 2005-08-10)
2,101 reads
Pulls relevant information including col. names, keys, and the description (if the description field is filled out).This makes a good source for a data dictionary report.
2005-08-17 (first published: 2005-08-12)
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Ever need to disable some foreign key during the load of new data in some tables? (Eq: for a snapshot). The following just does that using a parameter (0 for disable and 1 for enable)
2005-08-15 (first published: 2005-08-05)
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In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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