Use this script to find tables, views, stored procedures that directly reference a column in the SELECT statement or in a join. This script will also return stored procedure and view names that have SELECT * in them when the specified column exists in the table referenced by that SELECT statement.
2002-03-15
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SP_WASTED_SPACE will run through each column in your database and print a report of all the character columns. It will then print a report with :* The maximum length that a column is storing* The average length of data stored in each column* The amount of wasted space in each column* Hints on how to […]
2002-03-14
1,151 reads
This procedure will display the rows, reserved, data, index and unused space used in KB for all user tables in the database. The idea is to call sp_spaceused repeatedly. Limitation: certain versions of sp_spaceused will truncate the table name to 20 characters.Speed will depend on current activity level and locking in the database. It will […]
2002-03-14
415 reads
Drop all indexes, constraints and statistics for given table.
2002-03-14
1,218 reads
Generates a XML document containing metadata on a specified table. Table name is provided to the procedure.
2002-03-13
596 reads
This procedure when executed with the correct parameters, backs up a database in the specified directory pathUsage :exec USP_BACKUPDATABASE databasename, directory_path
2002-03-12
597 reads
This short and simple script is a very fast way to count the rows in all your indexed tables. I ran it against a 2-gigabyte database containing large tables (some with over a million rows!), and it returned results in under a second.
2002-03-12
2,969 reads
Given a table name as the parameter, all the indexes on the table can be dropped. This script can be useful if you want to drop indexes on a table inside another procedure
2002-03-12
13,939 reads
This procedure when executed with the correct parameters, exports all stored procedures from a database into different .SQL files in the path specified.Usage :exec USP_PRINT_PROCS username, password, servername, databasename, directory path
2002-03-12
585 reads
Returns the Owner, Table Name, Row count for all user tables in the current database.
2002-03-11
641 reads
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