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Script to kill the top blocker and report what it was doing.

This script identifies the blocking locks at the top of the blocking chain and kills them. Specifically, it reports what the top blocking spids are doing, kills them, waits three seconds and then reports on current blocking status.  If you have a situation where single connections are causing a huge blocking chain and you want […]

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2003-05-12

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How to get ColumnNames, datatypes and length

This is a followup to the script submitted by srallapalli. One can return a record set of all tables in a database using the following:USE MyDatabaseSELECT so.name AS TableName, sc.name AS ColumnName,  st.name AS ColumnDatatype,  convert(int, sc.length) AS ColumnLength FROM syscolumns sc, sysobjects so , systypes st WHERE so.type='U' AND OBJECTPROPERTY(so.id,'ismsshipped') = 0 AND sc.id=so.id […]

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2003-05-10

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Generate "CREATE...FOR ATTACH" stmt. dynamically

In instances where you have over 16 data files, or you need to move data files to a new location when you are moving a database you must use a CREATE...FOR ATTACH statement.  This script will generate the CREATE...FOR ATTACH statement dynamically given a database name.  It will take into consideration the file sizes, growths […]

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2003-05-07

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Restrict simultaneous access to resources

This set of procedures allow you to control simultaneous access to any resource you are using. It mimics the behaviour of a Semaphore in programming.A typical problem where you need this, is when you have a computational intensive procedure you only want to be started a limited number of times.First, add a record to the […]

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2003-05-07

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Returning data with col number

This script enables you to return data from SQL Server's table without specyfing the name of the column .All you only need to supply is the column number, that you want the data from. In the example we want to chose all rows from the second column (categories table - northwind) Column number is based […]

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2003-05-07

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UDF to get first date or trim time for Datepart.

Not long ago I was in a forum discussion when someone presented another way to get the date with time value of midnight by doing similar to thisDATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,@DATE),0)Which I find is much cleaner than any other option I have seen or tried myself. Seeing this I realized there are many other dates that can be […]

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2003-05-02

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The Data API Builder MCP Server Tools

The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?

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