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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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Script to sort by columns that may include NULLs

If you sort by in ASC order by column that may include NULLs and empty strings ( if type is varchar), the records with nulls will always appear before any others.This script will show how to chagne this pattern and move all records with NULLs to the bottom of your recordset

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2002-05-23

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Search for a value in a numeric variable list

When you have a variable that hold a comma separated numbers like '1,2,3' and you have a table with a column that has the value that should match a number in that list, you can use this script to avoid building a string and then executing it.You have to convert the columnID to varchar, the […]

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2002-05-20

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SQL Mail Stop and Start

Since SQL Mail periodically stops working and the simplefix is to stop and start it, this script does just that.It can be scheduled to run as a task as often as desiredusing an ISQL command (e.g. isql -U sa -P  -i "e:\dba\mailstopstart.sql" -o "e:\dba\mailstopstart.out")or as a stored procedure.  It has been tested on SQL 6.5 […]

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2002-05-16

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Get total file size of backup for last full backup

The information for backup size is stored in the backup_size column of the backupset table in the msdb database as the total bytes for that backup. This script allow you to look at the total back to tape or file so you can plan space needs for those devices. This is a simple piece of […]

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2002-05-14

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