List all primary keys
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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OSQL Process Watcher
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
600 reads
Pass an Array into a Stored Procedure
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
2,904 reads
Fix - Orphaned User Connections
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
2,198 reads
How to Short-circuit Where Clauses
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
4,318 reads
Loop through records without using a cursor
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
9,210 reads
Convert Hex value to Signed 32-bit int
Convert, up to 8 nibbles, hex string ('FFFFFFFF'...'00000000')to signed 32-bit int (-2147483648..2147483647).
2001-11-15
2,522 reads
Convert Hex value to Signed 64-bit bigint
Convert, up to 16 nibbles, hex ('FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF'..'0000000000000000') to Signed 64-bit bigint (-9223372036854775808..9223372036854775807).
2001-11-15
710 reads
Dropping all Triggers
When implementing a pilot study of audit trail triggers, you often want a way of removing all triggers in the database in order to retest your scripts: here it is!
2001-11-08
1,612 reads
Another script from DOS but shows alerts
Like the one posted before, the use of the SP is like this: proc_alerts 1,18. This will show the first 18 alerts on the system. OR proc_alerts 20,35 will show from 20 to 35. This lets you manage the list without letting go out of the screen.
2001-11-03
1,230 reads
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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