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Restore last backup to a different server/database

Finds the last available backup for a specified database (local or remote server), then restores the backup onto an existing database on the local server.The script will kill all non-system processes in the destination database to allow the script to be scheduled at night regardless is anyone is still connected.The logical and physical names are […]

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2003-03-31

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Date without Time (corrected)

Some time you need to know only Date without Time.This is simple function that allows you truncate datetime field to date only.This function can help you to construct dynamic T-SQL for select date period. P.S. Thanks for ispaleny! Conversion only for real not enough! It is necessary convert to real that correct errors near the […]

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2003-03-28

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Enhanced sp_password

This is a sp_password enhanced by Dmitri Bobkov (see http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/contributions/718.asp) and re-enhanced with a small changes from SQL2kSP3.For SQL Server in Mixed Authentication mode this stored procedure helps to validate users password. Currently this procedure checks for the next requrements: password must have length at least 8 characters plus among them at least one digit […]

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2003-03-27

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T-SQL to Export Table Structure to a script

When you want to export a table structure to T-SQL, everyone always points you to Enterprise Manager, or a script that calls BCP.Sometimes, a developer either doesn't have access to those tools, or just doesn't want to use them (like me) out of spite.I made this T-SQL because it was educational, and noone else seems […]

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2003-03-26

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DB Reindex all Databases

This script reindexes all tables in all databases.  Execute the script with the desired fill factor and it will do the rest.  There is an option to exclude databases from the reindex. This makes it easy to reindex all newly created databases. Great for the Development environment when Developers are creating database all the time.

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2003-03-23

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Jscript to obscure emails from robots in HTML

This script will obscure email addresses from robots even ones that ignore the tags to not snoop. Usually robots that ignore the tags, and the robots.txt file are used by spammers. They pull down the SOURCE of your page and scrape the email addresses from them. This script breaks the mail href into its base […]

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2003-03-23

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