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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Ever have trouble removing logins because of onwership issues and permission grants? This stored procedure checks for a login (sql or nt) on the local server and if found it then checks each database for ownership issues and granted permissions. The rules for action taken are listed in the header of the stored procedure. Works […]
2005-04-19 (first published: 2002-07-11)
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This function takes two dates and returns the number of business hours between the two dates. The function does not support holidays at this time, but the script could be modified to query a holiday table to exclude those holidays.
2005-04-15 (first published: 2005-03-28)
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This script permit executes the sp_updatestats in all databases at same time.First I create the stored procedure above in an admin database, for sample I create one database with ADMIN name where I put all administration objects create for me. You can create this sp in exist db, if you want.Now you can execute this […]
2005-04-14 (first published: 2005-03-29)
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These functions will allow you to convert from one data type to another. As well, you can expand your conversion library to perform even more conversions.Enjoy !-)
2005-04-12 (first published: 2005-03-24)
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/******************************************************** "CheckAllInts" Find all columns in all user tables in a database defined as "int", and get the maximum value for the column. Uses a cursor and logs the results to a table. (One-time CREATE TABLE statement at top of script). Successive runs over an appropriate period of time would allow one to find how […]
2005-04-11 (first published: 2005-03-23)
354 reads
The script returns the quarter and year of a date submitted in the form of '105' - first quarter of 2005 - and is useful for grouping data by calendar quarter. Easy to modify for fiscal quarters.
2005-04-07 (first published: 2005-03-21)
105 reads
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There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers