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To compare object permissions with 2 databases

Project are first developed on Development box then moved to Test and then to Prod. It may so happen that you find that things are working just fine on Test boxBut in production an exception is being thrown. Some times this come from the fact that the permission is not set on the object correctly.Or […]

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2004-09-14

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Extract data from sp_who for specific database

sp_who (and sp_who2) work great for a quick view of what's going on in the system, and can be filtered by user, but there's no way to filter by database. This quick stored procedure provides data on which users are accessing a specific database.

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2004-09-13

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Get back list of failed dts packages

This is a fairly basic script that gets back a list of steps within dts packages that failed within the last 24 hours. The reason I wrote this script, is that if you call a dts package from a dts package on another server via a scheduled job on that same server, both the package […]

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2004-09-13 (first published: )

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Script to show user indexes tables(Sql 2000)

This script is supported only in SQL SERVER 2000, This shows only indexes created by users in tables.Parameter @tabela--> You can put the table name and get the information about users indexes in this table.OrYou can put nothing (NULL) and see all tables on the schema and how many indexes each table have.

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2004-09-10 (first published: )

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Script to automatically restore needed log-backups

Given a backupfile with a lot of sequential log-backups, this script automatically restores just those backups out of the file, which are necessary to bring the database up to a given timelag relating to the original database.Params are path to backupfile, name of the db to restore to, timelag in minutes.

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2004-09-08 (first published: )

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yet another backup script usp_backup

I wrote this to backup to a network share you can set the backup to spool to the local disk first then it will move it to another drive or to a unc just fine. Directory to hold and move to are not optional but if you set them to the same path it won't […]

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2004-09-06 (first published: )

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Script to transfer logins to second server

Modification of DR_Script_Logins.sql by Bruce Canady.Puts out a script to add new logins or change the password of existing logins.I insert the output into a table in my production-db.   insert database.dbo.login_table exec master.dbo.dr_script_loginsThat way its backed up with the data, and the logins can be restored anywhere by the script i added at the […]

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2004-09-03 (first published: )

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Create an audit trigger on a table

Sometimes you need an audit trigger on a table. I have created a generic trigger that will work for (almost)every table. if the audit table is not there yet, It will copy the table structure (but strip identity attributes) and put all the data in an AUDIT_ table.I believe this will work for almost every […]

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2004-09-02

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alert on blocking chains via email

This is a script I use to watch for blocking chains on a server there are four variables to be set. @Duration tells it how long to run. This will be an active thread for the duration. @IntervalSec how often to poll for blocking. @maxwaittime time in miliseconds a thread that is blocked that you […]

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2004-09-01 (first published: )

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Getting the Object Code

What happens when I run this on SQL Server 2022 in the AdventureWorks2022 database?

SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION (OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.uspGetBillofMaterials')) AS [Object Definition]; 
GO 

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