This gives a quick check of the current activity on a SQL Server. I developed this after getting continually frustrated with "Current Activity" in SQL/EM getting blocked by processes when I needed to see blocking issues on the server. It has been immensely valuable to me in quickly identifying production-stopping issues on the database. It […]
2001-08-13
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This stored procedure was designed to scan all your character based columns in a particular database and show the minimum, maximum and average data length. As well as give an efficiency rating of the data stored. Input: None Output: Table name, Column name, Defined datatype and length, Average length of data for that column, Minimum […]
2001-08-10
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Here is a very basic example script for sending emails via CDONTS. This comes from the sqlmag web-site forum. Although fine, remember that it will use the local SMTP server to forward emails onto the destination user. If your servers smtp process can not reach an exchange/group-wise/other mail box on your network, then this code […]
2001-08-09
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This script will generate insert statements for the given tables. You can pass the tables names, separated by commas, into sp_DataAsInsCommand stored procedure as in the example below: EXEC sp_DataAsInsCommand 'employee,titleauthor,pub_info' Updated on 5/25/01 to correct an issue with columns that are short like a column defined as char(1), to correct another issue with the […]
2001-08-09
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2001-08-08
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This procedure will BCP out all data in a table. The format is designed to be used with the dbsp_bcp_in stored procedure to import the data back into a server.
2001-08-08
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The script will monitor the growth of the databases on your server. It is really meant to just get you started on a more detailed solution.
2001-08-08
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Over a period of time, because of the inserts, updates and deletes, the data and the index pages can get fragmented. Here's a script that can help to defrag the database:
2001-08-08
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On development servers, at times there is a need for dropping and renaming database(s). These scripts can be used for achieving these tasks. The usp_DropDB script will kill the connections to the database and then drop the database. It takes care of the space in the database name, if any and also makes sure that […]
2001-08-08
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I got this script from SQL Server Professional Magazine in an article by Andrew Zanevsky. It performs transactions to fill up virtual log files and continually shrinks the log until the desired level of shrinkage is achieved.
2001-08-08
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I have a table in SQL Server 2022 that is an XML data type. I have an index on this column and want to create statistics using CREATE STATISTICS for some of the data in the column. What should I do?
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