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Report Locking on Specific Database

This Script reports locking on a particular database either to the console or to a database table. It also allows filtering based on a minimum locking level (say Page or Table and higher). Included is the CREATE TABLE statement to build the reporting table. This table can reside in any database but needs to be […]

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2002-01-06

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Scheduler SP with Sample Log Creation/Exec Scripts

I created this SP for use with our morning DW builds. I use it to manage the execution of multiple jobs. It first starts up to a configureable number of jobs, monitors these jobs until one (or more) complete, and then starts additional jobs as needed. If any jobs fail, it will run the "transaction […]

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2002-01-06

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Encryption Example

Here in this T-sql tip I'am trying to compare the word "Hijacker" with two cases(line 3 and 4). Now they are in same when you compare the case (letter to letter), now you change the case of word "Hijacker" in either of the lines and run this SQL statements it will return different results. This […]

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2002-01-05

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Shrink DBs - Job Script

I'm posting this job script because it gets used by my scheduler script. It simply enumerates through each database on the server, and then executes a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE. The only wrinkle here is that I have it do a quick check to make sure that certain jobs are not already running.

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2002-01-04

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Transaction Logs - Job Script

I've included this job script, because it is used by the scheduler scripts that I've also posted. This job is a little more involved than most may need... It first checks to see if certain jobs are running. Is so, it waits for a while, and then checks again. After that it drops the existing […]

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2002-01-04

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Check Jobs Current State

I created this script in an attempt to better automate many different jobs that run each morning, as part of a datawarehouse build. I use it to not only tell me what jobs are currently running (so that I can manage how many I would like to run at a time), but what happened to […]

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2002-01-03

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Generate Restore DB Scripts from prev backups v1.0

Using the the MSDB backup tables, will generate the basic disk RESTORE commands for a database. It will include the Full, differential and all associated log recovery commands for you. Run the stored proc in Query Analyser then copy/alter the output to recover your DB. Great if using EE is not your cup of tea. […]

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2002-01-03

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