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Recompile all Udf's associated with a Table

When altering the structure of tables it is good practice to run SP_RECOMPILE against the table to force triggers and stored procedures to recompile. However this does not incude Udf's which also rely on the table, and this means the Udf's may fail when they are called. Run this script and supply the table name […]

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2002-09-05

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Show valuable info from sysindexes

This sp (sp_sysindexes) captures important columns from the table sysindexes and translates the numeric values into text. It shows the owner.object, the filegroup which it belongs to, the type of index, the total number of pages for tables/clustered indexes and non clustered indexes. It also shows the status, the indid and the type of object.You […]

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2002-09-01

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Divide big delete into several small ones

Big transactions cause the Tlog to grow.When you do a clean of a large table, the delete statement can cause a very long transactionSometimes it's necessary to prevent this.So we divide one big delete into several little ones.A table with call centre data gets +/- 1-mlj records a day. Every day we run a script […]

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2002-08-27

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Function to Return the Amount of Children in a Tree

Assuming we have the following table (that stores hierarchical data)  :CREATE TABLE [staff] (    [employee] [int] NOT NULL ,    [employee_name] [varchar] (10) NULL ,    [supervisor] [int] NULL ,     PRIMARY KEY  CLUSTERED     (        [employee]    )  ON [PRIMARY] ,     FOREIGN KEY     (        [supervisor]    ) REFERENCES [staff] (        [employee]    ))I ‘ll built a […]

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2002-08-23

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Check W2K Event log and send results to DBA

This is a simple Script that checks the W2K event log of choice and emails the results to the DBA. This script also uses the find command so you can search for strings in your event logs. It creats two scripts, the first script sp_EventlogSys runs xp_sendmail which executes the second procedure sp_EventlogSysquery and attaches […]

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2002-08-22

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SP to display locking users in tree format

This SP will give a listing of users blocking and being blocked in a tree formation (similar to explorer tree list). It uses a User defined function that recurses through the locking information gathered from sysprocesses. The listing only shows the Hostname (username) and the SPID.First create the User Defined Function (Part One) then create […]

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2002-08-19

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Compare the data of 2 Tables (Updated)

The SP compares the data in 2 tables and reports the different data. Tables could be from different servers, different databases or different schemas. This accepts 7 parameters 1, 2: Name of the 2 tables 3 : List only the differences 4. : Compare only the structure 5. : Check timestamp fields too 6. : […]

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2002-08-17

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Constraint Generator

This script can be used for generating the sql script for the constraints available on a particular table. There is a provision to generate script if the specified field(s) are part of the constraint.While specifing the field name , delimit them with ';'. Usage is ;Use pubs-- for generating the script for the tableexec Pre_Porting […]

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2002-08-16

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