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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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Port from Oracle's TRANSLATE Function

Here is a port from the Oracle's TRANSLATE function to T-SQL. It gets three arguments: a string to be searched, a string with a set of characters to be found and replaced, and another set of characters as the replacements. Example: SELECT dbo.TRANSLATE('ABCDE', 'BD', 'CE') It will return 'ACCEE'.

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2002-01-03

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Script to Show All Failed Jobs in Specified Period

This script will allow you to create a stored procedure that will check a server for any jobs that have failed in a specified number of days. It has proven valuable to me, since I have servers with lots of jobs that run frequently; I got tired of checking the history of each job to […]

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2002-01-01

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sp_dba_checkblocked fix for sp_NotifyBlock

Problems with error 512 more than 1 result returned due to the operator outside of the query. Found this when tested with multiple blocks going on at once. It worked fine when there was only 1 block. Depending on the type of server there can be a "whole lot of blocking going on "Replaced with […]

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2002-01-01

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RegEx Functions II

I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:

EmailAddressID EmailAddress
7              dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
8              Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM
If I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10
 *
 FROM person.EmailAddress
 WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d')
 AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)

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