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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 […]

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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 […]

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2003-04-24

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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 […]

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2003-04-24

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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 […]

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2003-04-24

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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 […]

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2003-04-18

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truncate logs regularly

It is a painful experience for all us administrators to truncate logs regularly. I just created a job to executesp_msforeachdb "use ?; backup log ? with truncate_only ; dbcc shrinkfile(2,5)"on all the servers at frequent intervals. It has saved me a lot of time. hope it helps you too.n.b: I assume that file id 2 […]

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