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blocked  and blocker  spid and details

2 steps:step 1 => create   a table in master database called BlockCheckstep 2 =>  create the stored procedure in master  called  BLOCK_CHECK @database_name varchar(20)What SP  does:-    it gets the  spid that is blocked  + info about it (like what it does  at the moment  it is blocked)-    it gets the spid  that  acts as a […]

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2003-06-05

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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 […]

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2003-06-03

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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 […]

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2003-05-30

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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.

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2003-05-30

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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 […]

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2003-05-29

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