Scripts

Technical Article

Stored procedure for viewing trigger details

This is a stored procedure for viewing details of trigger. It accepts trigger name as a optional parameter. When specified, it shows details of only that trigger. If no trigger name is specified shows the details of all the triggers in that database. this SP is created in master database but can be called from […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-06-12

341 reads

Technical Article

Get Notified When Accounts Are Changed

Perfect for finding developers that are changing your database accouts.  This procedure can check the sysusers table for each database and\or the master..syslogins table for account changes.  Gives the option of email notification, logging to a table or both. Update the set statements at the begining of the procedure to configure it however you like.  […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-06-07

531 reads

Technical Article

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 […]

(2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-06-07

2,296 reads

Technical Article

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 […]

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-06-07

704 reads

Technical Article

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.

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-06-06

708 reads

Technical Article

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 […]

(2)

You rated this post out of 5. Change rating

2002-06-06

4,295 reads

Blogs

When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?

By

Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....

Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code

By

I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...

From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path

By

If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Two queries work until compared with EXCEPT statement

By Leo.Miller

I've got multiple databases on 2 SQL 2019 CU32 servers , all using the...

STRING_AGG DISTINCT

By Phil Parkin

Has anyone written a wrapper function (or similar) around STRING_AGG() to allow the retrieval...

In-place OS upgrade or migration to new OS?

By jasona.work

Putting this here as we're currently on SQL Server 2019 installed on Windows Server...

Visit the forum

Question of the Day

BIT_COUNT() V

What does this return on SQL Server 2025?

select bit_count(null)

See possible answers