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)
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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)
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This is an update to the Search for text in procedures (no cursors) function (excellent script), which lists all of the objects (searching in syscomments, so it excludes tables). I have added a 2nd column to the output of the object type.
2005-04-06 (first published: 2005-03-18)
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this script send an HTML email every day with information about failed jobs . the script use the persist.mail to send the report, but you can use another mail component with support html.
2005-04-05 (first published: 2005-03-17)
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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