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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This script will run through the foreign keys on tables to produce a hierarchy of the tables in a database.This is useful when you need to purge and repopulate test databases with foreign key contraints
2002-07-24
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