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. […]
2002-08-09
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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 […]
2002-08-09
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How can you compare two tables -- say, table A and table B and determine if their content is the same? Assuming that A and B have same structure, here's how:First, from set theory, recall that: If ((|A| = |B|) && |A U B| = |A|)) ====>>> A = B |A| = NUMBER of rows […]
2002-08-07
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I liked the script of using a table as an array. But Didn't liked the cursor in it so I rewrote the script so that it uses a memory table.I tested it in the Query analyzer and this one is indeed faster. So all the people out there yelling that a memory table is faster […]
2002-08-07
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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 […]
2002-08-06
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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 […]
2002-08-05
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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
2002-08-01
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This script is used to extract from a temprary table with long string all elements in an array formatlength of 15 chars is assumed.
2002-08-01
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Smooshing - The act of removing all non-alphanumeric characters from a string. We have found several areas of our application where we need to perform cleaning on strings. The following is a SQL function which can be used to remove any non-alphanumeric characters. To use the function create the script and then SELECT dbo.fn_SmooshIt('B?\RU.,C>}E') will […]
2002-07-26
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Instead of interactively running profiler, you can use built in stored procedures to obtain the same results. You can even schedule the execution of the trace and output to a designated output file.
2002-07-25
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Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers