Usually when we recreate or rename a table we need to give the appropriate access permissions to the SQL users...this is very common in database under development environment where frequently table structure changes and we have to recreate it....we can accomplish this with Enterprise Manager but what will you do if Enterprise Manager fails to […]
2001-12-18
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System Stored Procedure to List the Table Definition of a table as a printable report. The procedure must exist in the master database. This works for any table in the current database. Do not fully qualify the tablename. Calling sample: use pubs exec sp_listtabledef 'authors'
2001-12-18
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This script lists the columns with type and length. It eliminates system tables.
2001-12-13
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This script allows the capture of the locks to a table. After the capture, you can see the commands and the moment of the lock.
2001-12-13
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Thanks to Raul Sharma for his brilliant ideas. This is a modification of one of his scripts. The script takes only the user tables. Those tables which does not have PK are not listed!
2001-12-13
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These 2 files plus sleep.exe (Resource kit) gives an administrator a good view of important blocking statistics in almost a real time fashion. You can use this with profiler to obtain some unique information very fast on a lead blocker if your gathering the right counters in profiler and dumping them in a table and […]
2001-12-10
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Have you ever wished T-SQL allowed you to pass an array into a stored procedure? Well the spListToTable stored procedure listed below accepts a delimeted string and turns it into a table. Code your stored procedure to accept a varchar, create a temporary table, call spListToTable, and use the populated temporary table as if it […]
2001-12-10
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Run the '1'-first script.This stored procedures will easily script all the logins and passwords, which will then help you to transfer them to another SQL Server. Run the '2' - Second Script. This will fix the Orphane Connections. Run the '3' - Third Script. Fixing some Orphaned Users left after step 2. NOTE: Script below […]
2001-12-09
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There are many times when you might be concatenating text in a stored procedure to make a where clause, because the input parameters are optional. An alternative is to create many versions of the stored procedure - one for each possible combination of parameters - which can soon become too big. There is a more […]
2001-11-25
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I sometimes have to loop through records in a database and perform a specific action on the value that is returned. For example, In the script below I loop through the user tables in sysobjects and simply print them out. This technique is useful when dropping all indices/triggers on a particular table, or adding WITH […]
2001-11-25
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The Data API Builder MCP Server, v2.x, includes a number of tools. What actions can these tools perform in your database?
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