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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 […]

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2002-06-04

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Sending mail using CDONTS and Sql Server

This stored procedure can be used to send mail through CDONTS and SQL Server. It resides in the Master database and accepts email addresses and subjects with a maximum of 50 characters and a body with a maximum of 500 characters. (You can increase or decrease these according to your requirements.) For this stored procedure […]

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2002-06-03

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Modified SP_who

Here is a modified SP_WHO procedurewhich returns more information about the current session.I forgot all the thing that i have added to the sproc, but the last addition shows the last executed TSQL statement.There might be a better solution to get the values from DBCC rowset, thou I did not have time to think everything […]

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2002-05-28

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Attach Excel Workbook

After installing bellow procedure you will be able to easly attach workbook and read data from it.This example shows how to attach excel file (c:\temp\orders.xls) and display data from named range (Table1):Exec mysp_AttachWorkbook 'c:\temp\orders.xls', 'MyOrders'Select * from MyOrders...Table1

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2002-05-25

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Eliminate Duplicates

This will find and delete all duplicate rows. You can refine the granularity of uniqueness by including more columns than just the Primary Key. If you are picky about which rows you want to delete, don't use this. Instead use the 'Find Duplicates' script I just submitted and then delete manually.

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2002-05-24

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Find Duplicates

Find duplicates in any table, and report the number of duplicates. Enter in the table name, and the field or fieldsfor which there should only be one row for each of that field, but you suspect are more. For example, if an employee table has more than one record for an employeethis will find any […]

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2002-05-24

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TableCounts

This script generates a statement that you would then run in the user database to get rowcounts of all tables. The advantages of this approach are you can modify it to get just the tables you want, and the output is easy to read:Table1-------1069Table2------10427

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2002-05-24

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Monitor Object Changes

Based on post http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=4349 I decided to write this script which will check for object changes in all databases and send an email listing the objects changed to the Operator associated with the job. This by no means offsets the need to restrict change access to objects in production, but in those cases when you […]

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2002-05-23

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Secure Cached Plans

The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?

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