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 […]
2005-03-21 (first published: 2005-03-04)
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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 […]
2005-03-16 (first published: 2005-03-04)
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This Procedure will display info regard to when the last time database was used. How to use it--------------Exec master.dbo.Sp_LastTimeDBUsed 'pubs'
2005-03-15 (first published: 2005-03-02)
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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 […]
2005-03-14 (first published: 2005-03-01)
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/*--Objective : To Write a given string on to a given file--Created by: Helen--Date : Jan 4, 2005--Execution : SELECT * FROM DBO.Ufn_WriteToFile('D:\Testing\dbcc.TXT','Hello world')*/
2005-03-10 (first published: 2005-02-21)
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2005-03-09 (first published: 2005-02-21)
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Here's an alternate way of removing multiple white spaces by using the REPLACE command.
2005-03-08 (first published: 2005-02-22)
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This script will BCP all user tables of a database to individual files. The file names are tablenameyyyymmddhhmmss.dat To executeusp_bcp_out_alltables 'database','path','server'You will need to change your default 1) path2) server
2005-03-07 (first published: 2005-02-23)
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This script creates a table based function that returns time dimension that would typically be seen in a data warehouse. The time dimension has aggregate values for week, month, quarter, half, and year.
2005-03-04 (first published: 2005-02-23)
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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 […]
2005-03-03 (first published: 2005-02-25)
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If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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