This simple script shows how to easely grant rights to user objects (tables,stored procedure,user-defined functions) to a role (public in example), in SQL Server 2000.The script can be used to grant rights to a specific NT /sql login account by replacing [public] with the desired name.
2003-05-16
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This script obtains the fragmentation in all databases on a SQL Server 2000 database server.You must firt create a table(Fragmentacion) on a database (Sistemas) to store the information obtained.
2003-05-16
467 reads
This function will evaluate an input string and convert it to title-case format. It uses the delimchars parameter to determine what are the triggering characters to indicate capitalization of the subsequent character.I am using it in a DTS package to convert data in CAPS to Title/Proper case as I output the data to an Excel […]
2003-05-15
462 reads
This script takes 2 samples over a 10 second period to identify what spids are using most resources. It's probably not 100% accurate but it's helped me out a few times.
2003-05-15
534 reads
If you have environment where you restrict access to database objects based on user roles and if you have a lot of databases on different servers in the same domain. The following script can generate roles from a given database in a format that can be used to create roles on different servers where the […]
2003-05-14
215 reads
Mod to Find the Nth Occurence of a characterFixes when you are looking for the third character and there is only one, was setting @pos back to 0 if there was only 1 of the characters. Also provided for the @occurence to be 0.
2003-05-13
402 reads
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 […]
2003-05-12
4,535 reads
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 […]
2003-05-10
182 reads
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 […]
2003-05-07
260 reads
For each user database rebuild indexes, update statistics and shrink. The script will use the system catalog to produce a list of databases. If you want to excluce a database add the excluded db name to the 'not in' list. You can also adjust the target fillfactor.
2003-05-07
1,896 reads
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I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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