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Script to Find Locations of Specified Column

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.

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Detect the Amount of Wasted Data Space in a Table for 2000

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 […]

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2002-03-14

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Display Rows/Space Used by all user tables

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 […]

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