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Prioritised list to table

I wrote this to allow me to send a priority list of int ids.This takes a "," seperated list of integers and puts them into a table, along with an [insorder] field that allows you to sort them.eg 2,6,3,1,7 becomesints insorder ---- --------1    72    13    56    37    9Depending on what […]

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2003-09-01

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Track Long Running Queries

SQL2000 only.We use the attached script to schedule a SQL Agent job that sets up a Profile trace looking for long queries, and hourly imports them into a table.  This way we can historically (but with some degree of real time) look to see what queries put a load on the system.  We then allow […]

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2003-08-23

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Compare Parallel Data Streams

This a script to compare two parallel data streams, in my case production and QA.  Two extracts were created and a mapping table was created as a look-up between old and new recordids.  A final table TestResults was created to hold the results of the comparison.  The comparison table names and join syntax are controlled […]

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2003-08-21

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Delete old backup files

A stored procedure and two functions that given a path, a date and a file extension will do one of the following:-Delete all files of the supplied extension in that directory before a certain date.-Delete everything before the last full backup.I use this because disk space is tight and maintenance plans seem to delete old […]

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2003-08-21

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Display Defragmentation Of Selected Tables

This script will display the defragmentation of table(s) all indexes of selected tables and display a table/list of the DBCC SHOWCONTIG. It will aslo will report if there are tables in the list that can't be found in the current database. Run the script in the database where the tables you want to check are.Check […]

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2003-08-21

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Get Filegrowth info from backuphistory

This uses info in backup tables to display growth of datafiles (LDF and MDF) and actual datagrowth (backupsize)  over a period of time.  Replace parameter values with name of your database and date from when you want info displayed. Results are best viewed in grid.

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2003-08-20

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A more efficient ForEach routine

SQL 2000's sp_MSForEachDB and sp_MSForEachTable are useful procedures for performing operations against multiple objects; however, they aren't always extremely efficient, because internally they use cursors to do their work.These 2 sprocs, sp_ForEachDB and sp_ForEachTable, perform many of the same tasks as their Microsoft-shipped twins, but run faster because they dynamically build the SQL string without […]

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2003-08-19

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