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 […]
2003-09-01
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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 […]
2003-08-23
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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 […]
2003-08-21
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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 […]
2003-08-21
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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 […]
2003-08-21
832 reads
This script to designed to kill all connections for all users to a specified database. This is used in conjunction with an automated QA/Dev database restore/refresh process run as a DTS job.
2003-08-21
758 reads
This script will record all the rows in all tables of the database it's run on. Then, at each execution, it will compare the rows to what they originally were and display those that are different (inserts or deletes):
2003-08-20
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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.
2003-08-20
431 reads
This function takes a pattern to be searched for, a string that the pattern will be removed from and a flag to determine whether all instances of the pattern should be removed.This is sort of an expanded version of a function I wrote to remove multiple spaces from a string.
2003-08-20
216 reads
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 […]
2003-08-19
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By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
Has anyone encountered recurring request latency when using Microsoft Access with SQL Server 2025...
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On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers