Table Sizes in database
This script uses the same information sp_spaceused does. It just formats it in a different way.
2005-05-10 (first published: 2005-04-26)
218 reads
Scripts
Restore Multiple Backup Logs
Use This Script to restore Multiple Log backups from a Log Device file. The script will restore all the logs on the device and will leave the databse ready to use after finish. Before running this script you must verify if the database is in No recovery mode or read only state
2005-05-09 (first published: 2005-04-25)
445 reads
Grant EXECUTE permission to users
This procedure will assist in granting execute rights to a database user to all the stored procedures in a database The parameters to this procedure are the databasename and the username to whom EXECUTE rights need to be given to The assumption here is that the user already has access rights to the database mentioned […]
2005-05-05 (first published: 2005-04-19)
245 reads
HexToINT
An optimized function for converting a HEX string into a INT. Built for being faster then other HexToDec converters.Slightly slower then HexToSMALLINT.If there is any faster function to do this conversion, I am intrested of using it instead.
2005-05-04 (first published: 2005-04-19)
308 reads
Script to Move Indexes off of the Primary Filegrou
This is a stored proc that will move your indexes to two new file groups. A Cindex file group is for the clustered indexes and NCindex file group is for non clustered indexes. The parameters for this procedure are @CPATH - the path to the clustered index datafiles @NCPATH - the path to the nonclustered […]
2005-04-29 (first published: 2005-04-15)
405 reads
Get SQL code Blocking and Blocked procs + Notif
This script was created to Identify Query string that is blocked and the one that is blocking with a datetime reference. These information is stored in a history table.It also sends a mail notification without using SQL Mail
2005-04-28 (first published: 2005-04-15)
1,201 reads
Execute SQL-DMO Database method on all databases
This script allows you to specify a method and a server (or multiple servers.) It will then execute the method on every database on the server. With very minor tweaking you could have it search for the servers, then call the server db script with each one, or add another nesting to call tables or […]
2005-04-27 (first published: 2005-04-14)
733 reads
usp_KillUsers2
This script expands on the usp_KillUsers script posted by Brian Knight, by adding the text of the process that is being killed and will even kill users who are accessing the database from with in a process of another database. Does not contain the NET SEND option though.
2005-04-22 (first published: 2005-04-04)
316 reads
Synchronize the DB user SID with the Login SID
If you attach a DB on an SQL Server different from the SQL Server where the DB was initially created, you will usually come up with a situation where a login will be a DB user however, you cannot see this through the login properties screen. That happens because the name of the login exists […]
2005-04-21 (first published: 2005-04-02)
1,418 reads
Reindex Procedure with a Twist (or two)
We’ve all seen reindex procedures that rebuild all indexes in a database or all indexes in a database which have less than a specified ScanDensity. This one goes a few steps further. First, the DBA can specify a ScanDensity_Threshold (a min value for ScanDensity), plus a Limit (qty or %). If you specify a ScanDensity_Threshold […]
2005-04-20 (first published: 2005-03-31)
1,868 reads
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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools
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