Where_Am_I_With_DB
Updated Where_Am_I script to add database. This way you can park it in your master db and call it anytime you need it for another project/db.
2004-12-07 (first published: 2004-10-29)
163 reads
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Random Populate a Table
Is quite a joke, but useful, I guess, and, of course, improvable. It need to use two random number generator (inclued) published some weeks ago here.Some fieldtype needs to be generating-improved (e.g. images) ... I wait suggestions and improvements
2004-12-06 (first published: 2004-10-28)
343 reads
Update_statistics on all database
This script will update statistics on all user databases. The script can be created as a job from SQL Server Agent.
2004-12-03 (first published: 2004-10-27)
658 reads
Finding first/last day of month by a date
This script finds the first day of previous, current and next month as well as last day of previous, current and next month.The calculation is based on the ISO date format which makes it independant of the date format used on the SQL Server.The calculation is performed from a date - it can be altered […]
2004-12-02 (first published: 2004-10-21)
256 reads
Elapsed time between dates
The following functions returns the number of years, months and days between two dates. The first returns a table format, and the second returns 1 value at a time
2004-12-01 (first published: 2004-10-13)
203 reads
Drop all foreign keys
Drops all the foreign keys in a database. This is useful when rebuilding data warehouses.
2004-11-30 (first published: 2004-10-13)
1,514 reads
Script to List Missing Identity Numbers
I have a table named employees with an identity column named id. Also,last_name is a column in the table named employees. I created the employeestable and inserted 9 rows in it. If I do a select * from employees, theoutput looks like this:id last_name1 a2 b3 c4 d5 e6 f7 g8 h9 iThen I deleted […]
2004-11-29 (first published: 2004-10-13)
146 reads
Find and REMOVE string from stored procedures
This script extends the "Find strings in text of stored procedures" Script by LiviuB and and now finds thestring and removes it. You may modify script to just comment out the text.This script removes the text (in this case 'set dateformat dmy') from all non-system stored procedures in a database.Modify the variable @searchstring to contain […]
2004-11-26 (first published: 2004-10-13)
294 reads
Easy and Fast way to check Backup details
Easy and Fast way to check Backup details. One line query to check backup status for all the databases. No need to go to each database or schedule job. Even you can use this query in customized application to get all the details on a single screen.
2004-11-25 (first published: 2004-10-14)
736 reads
Get Table Sizes and Percent of Database Size
This script uses two undocumented stored procedures that retrieve all tables in the database in which it is run and lists the data and index sizes, the sum of these sizes, and the table's size percentage of the entire database. The results are presented in descending order of the sum of the data and index […]
2004-11-24 (first published: 2004-10-25)
2,411 reads
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The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?
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