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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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Script to create a standby database server(new).

New feature to relocate files on the secondary server has been added to this script. If you don't need this feature please use my other script that is posted on this website.Run this script on a secondary SQL Server to replicate the data of all the user databases from the primary server every 15 minutes. […]

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2002-08-09

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Script to montior ErrorLogs every 3 hours.

This script monitors your errorlogs every 3 hours for the past 3 hours. It notifies you by email for all types of errors and by pager for all critical errors with severity type > 16. Saves lot of time when you have to monitor several servers every day 24x7. Run this script on a dedicated […]

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2002-08-09

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Smart Index Manipulation system

We are constantly having to drop indexesfrom tables while repopulating the datain the table. We then have to rebuild the indexes as they were before dropping them.This requires writing a custom drop and recreate index script for each unique situation. If we tryto write scripts ahead of time as soon as the indexing schemechanges on […]

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2002-08-06

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Change DTS package owner

There is a un-documented stored procedure in msdb called sp_reassign_dtspackageowner. Unfortunately, this requires a package name and will only work on one at a time.  If one developer is taking over for another, it may be helpful to change all of Bob's dts packages over to Jim.   The following procedure will do just that.Not sure […]

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2002-08-05

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Retrieve every n values

this scripts presents the way to retrieve from a given result set the values given n where n determines that the Nth value,2N th values , 3Nth value will be returnedin the example n = 3 the returning rows are 22,32,42the given set is 20,21,22,30,31,32,40,41,42

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2002-08-01

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Secure Cached Plans

The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?

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