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Perform an action when a file exisits

Script to check whether a file exists with todays date and performs an action based on whether the file exisits or not. We use this to check whether backups have completed from another SQL Srver and if they have completed we restoe on a server used for management information

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2002-01-09

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Script to generate BCP Statements for a Database

The Script below creates a Stored Procedure that returns a Macro SQL Statement. When this SQL statement is executed, it inturn returns BCP Out Statements for all the tables in a given database. The database name should be passed as a parameter to the procedure. Before the procedure is created, the SA Password must be […]

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2002-01-07

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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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Getting Database MaiL Profiles

If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?

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