Generate MetaData XML Document
Generates a XML document containing metadata on a specified table. Table name is provided to the procedure.
2002-03-13
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Scripts
Backup a database
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
595 reads
Display Row Count for all Tables
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
2,935 reads
Script to drop all indexes on a table
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
13,923 reads
Script to export Stored Procedures
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
575 reads
User Tables and their row count
Returns the Owner, Table Name, Row count for all user tables in the current database.
2002-03-11
632 reads
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 […]
2002-03-07
829 reads
Deletes all Constraints from Table
--Delete all restrictions from those tables included in the input parameters Procedure HP_BORRA_CONSTRAINTS -- Include CHECK, FOREIGN KEY, PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, and DEFAULT constraints.
2002-03-07
479 reads
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 […]
2002-03-07
1,339 reads
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 […]
2002-03-07
584 reads
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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