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Check for orphaned user or sid in syslogins

When rebuilding a server or setting up a backup or DR server the logins need to be added into master and synchronised with the user databases.Inevitably there are orphaned users is sysusers or the sid's do not match with syslogins.I use this stored procedure to check for a particular user when the user experiences a […]

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2002-03-07

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Pivot Data based on Unknown Field Items

I was posed a question a few months back on another site about being about to create a Pivot Table (Horizontal version of vertical data) and I saw the question again today. This will allow you to do that, just make changes to the query where the title is the replacement need. It will build […]

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2002-03-07

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Rows count for each and every table in a DB 

       By using this script one can find number of rows for each and every table in a database. Just cut and past this script in your DB and excute. A stored procedure will be created as 'Get_rowcounts_for_eachtable'. If U excuted this stored procedure, U can get all tablenames and rowcounts for respected […]

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2002-03-07

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Populate a table with a directory's file info.

I use this SP to return full directory information into a table.  FilePath, FileName, Filedate and FileSize are parsed from a 'dir /n/on/-c ' command. FilesInDir is the table created. usage: exec LoadFileDetailsIntoTable 'c:\winnt'select * from FilesInDir where filesize > 100000select min(fileDate) from FilesInDirThe Return Code will equal the number of files found.

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2002-03-05

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