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Get File Info

This script organizes information about the database files on the server.   A cursor is used to get the information from each database.  The information is reported in Megabytes, including the next allocation from disk.  No bells and whistles...and if I can find how dbcc showfilestats works I will add the amount of space used in […]

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2002-06-24

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Enumerate SQL Servers using SQLDMO and T-SQL

Microsoft reported BUG :ListAvailableServers Method of the SQLDMO.Application Object Causes Error 0x800A000E .When you execute the ListAvailableServers method of the SQLDMO.Application object from an ASP page, the following error message may occur: Microsoft SQL-DMO (0x800A000E) [SQL-DMO]Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. However, there is some solution to get SQL servers using Client […]

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2002-06-19

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Query MSDB for Search String

TSQL:Procedure to Lookup JobsJack Donnell,jack@JackDonnell.com Have you ever kept altering the same query to look for different items in you database?I took a hint from MS with all the sp_help and other system stored procedures and made a two scripts this one to query for databases scheduled tasks or jobs as they are now called.Here […]

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2002-06-16

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List all Databases and Last Full Backups

This script will create a procedure to list all databases on the server (except tempdb), the last time the database was backed up (database backup, not log backups), and a comment which could be customized.  For my purposes, I flag any database which hasn't been backed up in the last week.  This provides a quick […]

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2002-06-14

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Scan stored procedures in all databases

I wrote this for the developers because they were always asking me to find all of their stored procedures that did X.It scans through the syscomments text in each database looking for the requested string.  User must have read access on the syscomments and sysobjects tables in each database.

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2002-06-14

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sp_MSforeachfk-Perform an action on every FK

This stored procedure loops through each user defined Foreign Key and performs an action on that FK, like disabling them or printing its name. Please install this stored procedure in the MASTER database. For full usage instructions and advanced parameters please see the article about it at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/bknight/sp_msforeachworker.asp. .Shortened version of the usage (there are […]

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2002-06-14

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ORDER BY alias

There is a table tmp_tab:

CREATE TABLE tmp_tab (
id int,
val int
);
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES
(1, 1),
(2, NULL),
(3, 3),
(4, 4),
(5, 5);
You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
    ISNULL(val, id) + 1
Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct)

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