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Dynamic DBCC DBREINDEX

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 […]

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2002-12-19

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Net Send

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 […]

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2002-12-18

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Script to gather informations on databases

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 […]

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2002-12-17

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Automatically Restoring from Production

Came across a great script from Ken Kaufman on copying backups using xp_cmdshell.  Thought I'd contribute a script I wrote that builds on that to restore the latest production backup to a testing or development server.  In this case I routinely create all my production backups to a network share and then use that source […]

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2002-12-16

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UDF Luhn's formula-credit card number validation

This UDF will validate a credit card number using Luhn's formula.For example 49927398716 will return 1:print dbo.luhn('49927398716')print dbo.luhn(49927398716)11based on:Credit cards, validation and the Luhn formulabyEduardo Chaveshttp://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/validation.htmlAlgorithm converted to TSQL by Joseph Gama

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2002-12-12

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Getting Database MaiL Profiles

If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?

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