2003-04-29
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This script is intended for SQL Server professionals that needs to have a quick snapshot from an environment with all relevant information about the databases. It's a compilation from multiple scripts, and works in SQL Server 2000.I think that works on 7.0 too, but may have some compilation issues.Don´t forget to see the section MANUAL […]
2003-04-28
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spaceused by user tables
to figure out space used by tables. I have seen different versions of them .. here is a very simple effective one!!!
2003-04-28
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Delete old backup files
This is one example of how you can make backups with a date stamp for the file name. You can then periodically remove the files that are older than a specified date by simply placing a few lines of code in a job step and calling the supplied sp and passing the date from which […]
2003-04-25
774 reads
List of all tables in DB, with row count sp
This stored procedure will list all user tables in the current database, along with the number of rows in the table. This version uses dynamic SQL to retrieve the number of rows, to overcome the need for an index on all tables. I use this to document legacy databases, I find that they may have […]
2003-04-24
733 reads
Restore DB from Disk File script
This script was designed to restore a backup of a production database from disk file, handle multiple DB files, move the files to new location, with new database name that is customized for the date of the backup, create any missing logins, and fix any user accounts that are orphaned by differing SIDs from the […]
2003-04-24
1,072 reads
Unattended Reindexing of all user tables
I see scripts all the time on how to reindex all the tables in a db but they are usually too generic and may cause issues. For instance they typically cause the log file to grow very large and may even fill the hard drive. This is intended to be run off hours when db […]
2003-04-24
652 reads
Running Total on Single query
This query calculates the running Total on Table without using cursors or variables.
2003-04-22
387 reads
Logging of Transaction details on a table
For security and auditing purpose, in some cases there would be a need of tracking transaction detail on a table.The following script achive this using Triggers. The auditedevents will be stored in a separate table.
2003-04-19
266 reads
Get the Foreign Key Hierarchy 2
This procedure is just another approach for getting a list of tables defined in a database, ordered by dependency on other tables based on foreign key relationship.I used it for a deployment process, where the TABLE create scripts must be executed in the correct order,because the foreign key constraints are specified in the create script […]
2003-04-18
379 reads
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