which scheduled jobs failed on their last run?
Uses the sysjobs and the sysjobhistory tables in the msdb database to determine if ONLY THE MOST RECENT RUN of any job on the server failed.
2004-09-09 (first published: 2004-06-02)
282 reads
Scripts
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.
2004-09-08 (first published: 2004-05-28)
1,656 reads
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 […]
2004-09-06 (first published: 2004-05-27)
408 reads
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 […]
2004-09-03 (first published: 2004-05-26)
2,546 reads
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 […]
2004-09-02
1,629 reads
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 […]
2004-09-01 (first published: 2004-05-25)
1,817 reads
Generate all user stored procedures in all dbs
This generates all user stored procedures in all databases to aid in QA loads and DR situations. No OLE or DMO. has one configureable variable @path for storing the scripts. Also generates an osql script to run for each database.
2004-08-31 (first published: 2004-05-25)
440 reads
Search for text in procedures and show context
This script will search for text within stored procedures and udf's. As a bonus, it will also diplay a user-configurable number of lines from each stored proc to show the search text "in context" so you can tell if it is something you need to deal with without having to open every proc manually.
2004-08-30 (first published: 2004-05-25)
260 reads
Convert Sql Data to any file format
This sp convert SQL Server data into any file format.eg xsl,txt,doc etc.
2004-08-27 (first published: 2004-05-15)
372 reads
Bulk Insert proc to try out ur optimization skills
This SP can be used for bulk inserting data from an ascii text file onto a table. You have to change the structure, of the temporary table (ITEM_MASTER_TEMP) and the actual table onto which data is inserted, to suit ur needs . I wish you people workout this SP and try to optimize it as […]
2004-08-26 (first published: 2004-05-24)
217 reads
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