Never use select into in transactions......
If select into clause is used into transactions till the transaction commits sysobjects table can not acceses directly.It can be accessed only with 'nolock' hint.
2002-06-07
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Scripts
Proc to Query MSDB..SYSJOBS and SYSJOBSTEPS
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.The […]
2002-06-07
2,279 reads
Proc to Query Syscomments and Sysobjects
TSQL:Procedure to Query for Dependent ObjectsJack 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 dependednt objects or references.I also created another […]
2002-06-07
680 reads
DbSizeTracking
Monitor the long term growth of Many databases on Server-Create the table DbSizeTracking on database of choice-Create a job to run the script on weekly intervals-Query the table with section at end of script
2002-06-06
906 reads
2002-06-06
492 reads
Simple email with CDONTS
Here is a strait forward script that allows you to use CDONTS to send email. Note that the Subject, From, CC and BCC are all optional parameters. Because it uses a fully qualified path, this procedure can live in any database on the server. CDONTS will need to be installed on the server.
2002-06-06
697 reads
sp_lock2 = sp_lock +shows database and object name
sp_lock2 is similar to sp_lock, except that it displays the database name, object name and index name instead of the ids. It accepts no parameters unlike the sp_lock procedure which can take an optional spid parameter. The basis for the main query which queries the system tables for lock info was taken from the sp_lock […]
2002-06-06
4,204 reads
The SQL 7.0 Query for listing of all users tables
The SQL 7.0 Query for listing of all users tables with owner, no of rows and Date/Time created is as follows
2002-06-06
305 reads
Alert When Not Enough Free Disk Space
--Implement an Alert Which Trigger when Specified Disks--free space exceeds a specified alert level--Steps to implement:--1) Define a Custom Error Message with messsage text (The ---drive free space is bellow alert level. Details: %s)--2) Define an Alert linked to CEM defined at step 1--3) Implement a Job which execute the following step in a recurring […]
2002-06-04
2,697 reads
List All Jobs and Their Schedules (SQL7.0 & 2000)
This queries the sysjobs, sysjobschedules and sysjobhistory table to produce a resultset showing the jobs on a server plus their schedules (if applicable).
2002-06-04
1,761 reads
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The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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