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dropUnusedLogins

For those site using SQL Server ids as opposed to Integrated security there may be instances where occasionally SQL Server logins might get 'orphaned'. That is the login is not a member of any server group that has general database access nor does that login have specific access to any particular database.  Compile this proc […]

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2004-03-01

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Retrieve Index Information For All Tables

This is an update to sp_helpindex, it allows you to pass the table name and whether you want to retrieve clustered, nonclustered or primary key indexes for a table. Using the sp_msforeach table will allow you to do this for all tables in a database. Inserting the data into a table will allow you to […]

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2004-03-01

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List SQL backups

During the process of developing a script to make copies of local SQL database and transaction log backups, I needed to come up with an easy way of locating the backup files. This script queries the SQL2000 backup tables in the msdb database and returns backup start dates, types (D=database, L=Log, I=Differential) and the location […]

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2004-02-25

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Parsing an IP address into its separate octets

IP addresses are represented as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx is an integer between 0 and 255.  Each three-digit integer is called an octet, and all IP addresses comprise four octets.Help-desk applications and administrative tools often store the IP addresses for a company's PCs in a database.  An IP address can be represented either as a single […]

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2004-02-25

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Automate Audit Trigger Generation

I have been tasked with a daunting job of scripting I/U/D triggers for our new database. The job of the triggers is to Audit the activity on the tables. What column was changed to what value on what table and by whom. With over 60 tables, this is a daunting task. So off I went […]

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2004-02-24

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Find a string in Procedures, Triggers, etc

I want to thank James Travis for his original and excellent work and to Razvan Socol for alerting about a similar problem that led me to improve James' code. The problem is that when searching for a word that is split between two 8kb blocks, James' code would ignore it. The solution is to look […]

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2004-02-21

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Question of the Day

Identity Defaults

What happens when I run this code?

CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
     id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
     somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO

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