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shrinking logs: how much data will be reclaimed

This script will show you how much diskspace can be reclaimed by shrinking all the logfiles of userdatabases using a DBCC SHRINKFILE(2) command. Often the spacegain is much smaller then expected. SQL Shrinks logfiles the end of the file until it finds the active part of the logfile. (If the active part of the logfile […]

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2005-03-21 (first published: )

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Automated Profiler trace Create

This stored procedure is created to be invoked (in my case by SQL Server scheduled job), and will then create a tracefile to a specified file location (ensure that if this is NOT local, your SQL Server Agent runs on a domain account that has access to that drive. The Stored procedure will create files […]

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2005-03-16 (first published: )

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Stored Procedure Call Hierarchy

Easily extractss the complete stored procedure call hierarchy from "sysdepends" table of SQL Server and represent it in a pseudo-graphical tree-view.The script uses a temporary table (automatically created/dropped) to hold children and parents of relationships. For representing the call hierarchy the table contains a level field (depth) and a field containing the "enumerated path" (using […]

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2005-03-14 (first published: )

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Finding Procedures with a specified text

This script will give the text of all the procedures with occurences of a specifc variable. Syscomments has a limitation of 4000 characters but this script overcomes that as it uses DMO. The output is generated in a text file. If you want the name of the procedure only. replace the line where it says […]

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2005-03-03 (first published: )

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