One of the challenges weve faced is changing passwords in a warm server to reflect changes made to the live server. The initial transfer of users and passwords was performed by the sp_help_revlogin script provided by Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246133. The difficulty with this script was once the users are in place, you cant sync changed […]
2003-01-08
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This UDF will return the checksum for a SP or UDF to help tracking changes to the code.Example:print dbo.OBchecksum('hello')
2003-01-07
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This script can be used to display the number of rows of all the tables in a database.
2003-01-02
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You can use it when you want to generate a script which can insert data row by row.
2002-12-31
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This script creates comma separated lists of columns in different formats. These lists can be copied and pasted into other T-SQL statements. The lists are formatted as: a simple list of column names, a list with the column names as declared variables (@ + column name + data type), a list with column names as […]
2002-12-26
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This script uses sysobjects and sysindexes to ID all tables in a database that are indexed, and/or clustered. It then runs through per table all of the indexes and runs DBREINDEX with their fillfactor. This eliminates having to maintain a list of all indexes and having code fail when it tries to modify indexes that […]
2002-12-19
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Yee Haa, as if we couldn't annoy our users more with message boxes, emails, and other friendly pop ups ;P here comes the net send. Has a test for success to determine if the send worked. If an invalid name is entered it can take a bit to fail, so don't use this from a […]
2002-12-18
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These are little more than wrapper functions for xp_regread and xp_regwrite, but lets them be callable from views, if you desire to do so.
2002-12-18
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This stored procedure lets you retrieve the environment variables from the server. you can pass in a partial name to get the variables that start with the partial match, or bblank to retrieve all the environment variables.
2002-12-18
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The script is design to gather informations on the growth of the databases per server (except the system ones).It is collecting in the 'databases' table of the master database for current information and in 'histodatabases' for old ones.It is possible to schedule the stored procedure.The column Serveur is only for gathering information on one server […]
2002-12-17
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