Sometime one needs to perform an operation on all or selected databases on a server/instance. Microsoft provides undocumented store proc sp_MSForEachDb to achieve this. I use it for some clean up process as a SQL Job.
2002-11-30
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This Procedure is what I use to clean out all the old DTS package version on my server periodically. You just place it in the msdb database and run it as you need to.Note: Although I have never had an issue with it, I do suggest backup msdb database beforehand, just in case you wack […]
2002-11-30
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A procedure too re-attach a data( MDF ) file when the log file is missing or not recoverable.
2002-11-22
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Here is a script I wrote to automate updating of permission on a database. Often running as sa I forget to set the rights for objects when distributing db objects. It provides the capability to process only certain object types, and whether or not to print and execute the persmissions change or just print out […]
2002-11-22
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Useful in dev environments when you need to periodically assign execute permissions on all procs in a db (drop/create scripts may have been run without re-assigning permissions)Accepts DB name, ProcLike for matching 'starts with' pattern against proc names in DB, revoke (optional - defaults to 0/True) specifies wheter to GRANT or REVOKE permissions
2002-11-21
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The following script creates a monitoring utility to find out for how long a sql server was down prior to the latest startup. The script creates one table (tblHeartbeat), four stored procedures (uspFillHeartBeat, uspGetDowntimeSummary, uspCleanHeartbeat, uspAtStartup) and two jobs (FillHeartbeat and CleanHeartbeat).Notes:1. By convention I introduced in my company (UGO Networks, Inc.) all "service" database […]
2002-11-21
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This is a modification of the excellent procedure by G.R.Preethiviraj Kulasingham B.Sc., MCP .The Modifications allow the procedure to successfully list differnces between tables with many more columns than the original.
2002-11-19
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This script checks for indexes that are duplicates based on being indexed on the the same set of columns for user tables listed in sysobjects for a given database. Run the script in the database you suspect might have duplicate indexes.
2002-11-19
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Create a pivot Table similiar to Microsoft Access Pivot Command, Specify if there should be totals at the bottom, right or both..Uses a temporary table to hold the values..Bad part is the SQL that is generated can have no more than 4000 Characters..If not using any NVARCHAR characters, could make the sql up to 8000 […]
2002-11-18
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This script will return how many time one string occurs within another. It will only work on SQL 2K as it is a UDF, but it could be converted to a stored proc with a output variable for SQL 7.0.
2002-11-15
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If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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