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)
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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)
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Recently, I answered a question by a person on Experts Exchange.com on how to find the # of weekdays between two dates. This question was simplified greatly by the fact that the dates given would always be from Monday to Friday, and so the calculations needed were very simple.Then, while looking at the recent scripts […]
2004-11-22 (first published: 2004-11-10)
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This Function and the query will generate the script for Create / Drop/ Create Constraint based on a Naming Convention . More changes can be done on this. This is very simple
2004-11-18 (first published: 2004-11-05)
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A better version of the :"Finding first/last day of month by a date"
2004-11-17 (first published: 2004-11-04)
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backup log with truncate only doesn't shrink the file. Actually truncating log needs transaction to truncate. A simple way to reduce the log file size to 1KB.
2004-11-16 (first published: 2004-11-03)
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create this SQL as a stored procedure and give user execute permissions on it store procedure. that user will be able to see all the jobs and their associated schedules but won't be able to modify, create or execute job. This is particularly a request most often aske dby developer to view jobs/schedules on production […]
2004-11-15 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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some times after restore database, you find your logins and users mapping is lossed and no user can now logon to database using application. I faced that many times. To map all your database users with master..syslogins. save this procedure in current database and execute it. All users will be mapped with logins.
2004-11-12 (first published: 2004-10-29)
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SQL 2000 OnlyThis script will create a stored procedure and a table in the master database. Simply run the stored procedure and supply a database name as a parameter. It will do the following:1. Gather/Log DBCC SHOWCONTIG statistics (pre defrag)2. Defragment all user indexes in the database3. Gather/Log DBCC SHOWCONTIG statistics (post defrag)4. DBCC DBREINDEX […]
2004-11-11 (first published: 2003-03-19)
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SP_WHO_3 is a very powerful utility for all DBAs. It displays processes connected to the system and what they are doing. It can find blocking processes, can return the Input Buffer for everything in the recordset returned, and provides immense filtering and sorting capabilities. It's designed to be extremely efficient, yet it provides many more […]
2004-11-09 (first published: 2004-08-05)
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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