I wrote this script because our MOM Datawarehousing got so damn behind.Every time the windows Scheduled task tried to run to warehouse the dataout of OnePoint, it would puke because the SQL log would fill up. Thisallows you to start so many days out and it will increment it down by the number of days […]
2007-10-18 (first published: 2007-07-26)
1,388 reads
It might not be useful now, but if you ever wanted to downsize the amount of data that you keep in your datawarehouse, good luck. This will help you do that. This job is set to shrink it down to 120 days, but you can adjust it as you like. Runs again in 5 day […]
2007-10-16 (first published: 2007-07-26)
537 reads
This script is basically a front-end for the sp_"scriptproc" stored procedures that ship with MSSQL. This will allow you to create ALL of your procs (INS, UPD and DEL) on the fly using the article name instead of having to first search for the article ID. It also uses sp_scriptdynamicupdproc where appropriate. This facilitates quick […]
2007-04-23 (first published: 2007-03-27)
1,730 reads
When AUTOSTATS is used in a database, we can sometimes use these automatically generated statistics to find columns where SQL Server has built statistics on non-indexed columns that may benefit from an index. This script finds these columns and displays the selectivity of them. This script can be useful in troubleshooting poorly performing databases by […]
2007-04-09 (first published: 2007-02-20)
1,743 reads
If you use 2 different maintenance plans (one for full-recovery databases and one for simple-mode databases) this proc can help keep the databases in the right plan. You can schedule this as a job and if anyone changes the recovery mode of a database or adds/removes a database, this proc will ensure that the changes […]
2007-04-06 (first published: 2007-03-05)
1,617 reads
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
No person would create the situation that a eye-catching video game of basketball was...
The Fresh Orleans Saints are shed the playoffs for the 3rd instantly time, which...
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers