Kill spids that are idle
Ever wanted to get rid of users who are sitting idle for long periods of time? Here's a script that removes spids idle for a variable period of time.
2001-10-03
4,534 reads
Scripts
Transfer Logins and Passwords Between SQL Server 7.0 Servers
The SQL Server 7.0 Data Transformation Services (DTS) Object Transfer feature transfers logins and users between two servers, but it does not transfer the passwords for SQL Server authenticated logins. (DTS in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 does transfer passwords.)
2001-10-01
1,679 reads
The Log Watcher
A fast way to get a quick look at all the log sizes and space used in a real time fashion.
2001-09-25
2,601 reads
Script to Attach Multiple MDF
Copies mdf files located in a directory on a client and attaches them to the connected server. This is the winning solution to the contest that was presented in an article posted at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/reattachingdatabases-somecodeandacontest!.asp. That article shows how to do the same thing using DMO. Wynn Muse is the author of this stored procedure.
2001-09-23
3,639 reads
Disable and Enable Keys (with some validation)
Here are two stored procedures for enabling and disabling all keys (primary and foreign) for a specified database. It makes sure the database specified is not the system databases and the users session is at the DB to have its keys enables/disabled.
2001-09-19
869 reads
Trim Backup Files
This script runs within a DTS package. It searches the backup directory stored as a global variable in the script and trims all backup files older than some number of days. the script includes logging to the C: drive so you can trace the effects of the script. You need to create the global variables […]
2001-09-12
1,533 reads
List Where SQL Server Files
This SP checks the path where SQL Server is installed, and then lists all the .mdf and .ldf files. Also list the quantity of tables, views, sp, xp and users on the given database.
2001-09-10
2,851 reads
Automatic Backups
Creates the backup devices where sql server is installed, creates an error message above 50001, an alert, and an adittional job in case the scripts fails. In the first time backups all databases and then backups the logs until two days past from the last full backup. Then backups the databases again and so on. […]
2001-09-07
1,278 reads
List Only User Tables
A simple stored procedure that only shows the user tables. It is like sp_tables but fixed to give a simpler vision of the tables.
2001-09-07
1,693 reads
Backup Transaction Logs on all Databases
Here we go again. This is the last in my backup series that I use to do backups of the databases. As far as I know this should only kick out errors when there really is one. This stored procedure is designed to take 4 parameters @bksrv : This is the name or the IP […]
2001-09-06
883 reads
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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