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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 […]

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2002-06-07

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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 […]

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2002-06-07

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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.

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2002-06-06

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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 […]

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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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