Provides a method to regularly recycle the sql server error logs based on a given file size. If the current log file is larger than that size, then the current log is closed and a new log created.This proc takes one parameter, @MaxFileSize, which is the target file size. This parameter defaults to 10 MB. […]
2003-10-27
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It creates documentation for all user tables in a specific database. A server name/ database name was added on the top of the HTML file also a column datatype field was added to the HTML file. Now the @strHTML can have 8000 chars, before only 4000 - still for tables with a lot of columns […]
2003-10-27
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Sound like old hat ... but this procedure accepts the two database names as input parameters; therefore, it must dynamically generate the SQL and use Exec(@command) to execute it. It also reports on tables that exist in one database but not the other ... Finally, it uses count(*) to provide more accuracy than using sysindex […]
2003-10-24
298 reads
This function lists the column name and column id for primary key columns for a given table.
2003-10-24
1,533 reads
This script converts string-based IP addresses to their numeric equivalents so that it is easy to do arithmatic on them such as find an IP address that is within a range.NOTE: This function calls the split function which is included in the post.
2003-10-20
1,550 reads
Are you managing big databases with a lot of tables like SAP as I'm?Do you use sp_spaceused, as I'm?Do you want to know your n biggest tables as I'm?Then don't search any longer.I'm using this script every day for may maintenance jobs.I generates, like sp_spaceused, out of sysindexes the n biggest tables without any cursor, […]
2003-10-20
304 reads
I routinely need to retrieve and package query result sets in an XML package. The built in functions supported by SQL Server 2000 are effective, but are often more of a pain than a help. This routine can be used in a simple select statement to XML encode the contents of a column during the […]
2003-10-14
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2003-10-10
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Calculates the factorials of numbers between 1 - 31.High level is 31 because maximum stored procedure, function, trigger, or view nesting level is limited to 32.
2003-10-08
650 reads
This script will generate a set of DBCC DBREINDEX commandsthat can be executed to rebuild the indexes. Additional information is provided to assist with sizing of the fillfactors.
2003-10-03
613 reads
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