Add user with DDL Trigger
DDL trigger will add a user to a newly created database and assign db_owner role. It can be modified for what role is required.
2015-03-12 (first published: 2013-08-22)
1,615 reads
Scripts
Script out/store all indexes on a server
This script will store all index definitions into a table that you can use to "re-create" the indexes at a later date.
2015-03-11 (first published: 2013-08-26)
2,773 reads
2015-03-10 (first published: 2015-02-16)
1,419 reads
List database restore COMPLETION datetime
This script shows the COMPLETION datetime of database restore.
2015-03-06 (first published: 2013-09-04)
1,243 reads
Restore Database with any number of Ndf files
Execute the code after passing database name on which you want to restore and the path where your backup file being located.
e.g exec sp_restoredb N'mydatabase',N'D:\mydatabase.bak'
2015-03-05 (first published: 2013-09-22)
1,889 reads
Find Top 5 executed queries ordered by execution count
I wrote this query that helps us find executed queries with most number of execution counts. The DMV that we have used in this script is sys.dm_exec_query_stats and the function that we have used is sys.dm_exec_sql_text.
2015-03-04 (first published: 2013-09-23)
5,109 reads
Script Login Differences
Compare the logins and users on two instances and generate a TSQL script to make them the same.
2015-02-26 (first published: 2013-11-15)
2,847 reads
Determine when a Stored Procedure was created and last altered
Determine when a Stored Procedure was created and last altered.
2015-02-25 (first published: 2013-12-26)
3,452 reads
Dynamically create drop user statistics scripts
Generate script to drop any unwanted user created statistics.
2015-02-24 (first published: 2013-12-26)
1,517 reads
Total space used per table
I have received some comments on getting total space of table and all indexes. Therefore I rewrote previous query and it returns total space used, space used by heap table or clustered index and space used by non-clustered indexes.
2015-02-23 (first published: 2014-01-18)
3,159 reads
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Question of the Day
Who am I?
If I want to track which login called a stored procedure and use the value in an audit, what function can I use to replace the xxx below?
create procedure AddNewCustomer
@customername varchar(200)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @added VARCHAR(100)
SELECT @added = xxx
IF @customername IS NOT NULL
INSERT dbo.Customer
(
CustomerName,
AddedBy
)
VALUES
(@customername, @added)
END See possible answers