Database Force Restore
This stored Procedure can be used to force restores the database by killing all the process running over this database.
2003-06-05
432 reads
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Script to Retrieve SQL Server Port Number
Retrieve SQL Server port number from registry. Useful for SQL Servers running named instances or non-standard TCP port numbers.
2003-06-04
657 reads
Improving performance on joins to large tables.
In your tenure as a DBA/developer, you've probably been asked to write dozens of stored procedures similar to this:CREATE PROCEDURE ContactInfo@ContactID intASSELECT c.Name, a.Address, p.PhoneFROM Contact cLEFT JOIN ContactAddress aON c.ContactID = a.ContactIDLEFT JOIN ContactPhone pON c.ContactID = p.ContactIDWHERE c.ContactID = @ContactIDBut there is a more efficient way to write such a query.....particularly if you […]
2003-06-03
1,440 reads
MAC number from Query Analyzer
This procedure shows you the MAC number of your Enthernet card in a format exactly the same as when running: ipconfig /all from command shell. Updated thx to Larry A.
2003-05-31
167 reads
Find Duplicate Employees, Customers, Etc.
Customers, employees, etc. come and go. They get entered multiple times in inconsistent formats in databases.This simple script finds the duplicates across multiple formats and is easily modified as needed. It's so easy, my grandmother could do it. Oops! No offense Grandma.For very large databases, create and join two temp tables indexed on the namedatetring […]
2003-05-30
241 reads
Show all User-Defined Datatypes for all Databases
This procedure displays all user-defined datatypes in all databases on a server. Another example of the power of dynamic T-SQL, this procedure dynamically generates SELECT statements for the systypes tables in each database and UNIONs them together so that they display in one recordset.
2003-05-30
190 reads
Blocking Notification
This script will send a mail whenever it detects a Blocking process. You need SQL Mail configured on this server in order to use or you can specify the pager number @company.comEx:- 1234567789@Skytel.com
2003-05-29
1,864 reads
Notification of schema changes
This procedure reports on table schema changes, any new or deleted tables since the previous run of the stored procedure.It only reports on tables owned by 'dbo'
2003-05-29
469 reads
Script to determine if all chars are same in field
This script is a fix to the "Script to determine if all chars are same in field"posted by Harvard Kinkead (hneal_98) . That script doesn't handle strings with trailing spaces (e.g. set @repeat = 'bbbb ')It happens because of the nature of Len function. To bypass this limitation my script concatenates one character to tested […]
2003-05-29
111 reads
Table Pivoting revisited
A lot of table pivoting scripts use cursors to reach the desired results, but SQL scripting was developed to be utilized in a data set environment rather than sequential step-thru scripting.Normally, there are 3 types of Table Pivoting - 1) column explicit 2) column implicit and 3)single column. COLUMN EXPLICIT will place the row value […]
2003-05-29
453 reads
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