Shrink all databases
Procedure changes all databases' recovery mode to simple and shrinks them all (or at least it tries to).
2012-03-07 (first published: 2008-01-14)
3,913 reads
Rafal Skotak
Select from stored procedure
This terse script shows an easy (but "dirty" - so not advisable for production environments - rather for personal use) way to select data from stored procedure.
2011-12-14 (first published: 2008-03-04)
4,155 reads
Clear database - delete all records from a database (updated)
The procedure below deletes all records from the specified database's(except master, model, msdb and tempdb) tables (except those from the schema 'sys').
2011-12-09 (first published: 2008-01-31)
4,191 reads
Generating number sequences with Common Table Expressions
The script shows one of ways generating number sequence - this one uses CTE.
2011-10-04 (first published: 2008-02-06)
1,936 reads
Row count and space used for all tables in database (update)
This procedure works like the sp_spaceused procedure but this one shows statistics for all tables in the selected database or for all databases (excluding tempdb and model).
2011-05-25 (first published: 2008-03-05)
10,155 reads
Search for a text in all databases
This procedure searches for a specified text in all (or one selected) databases in all (or selected) tables.
2011-03-02 (first published: 2008-01-25)
5,083 reads
2011-03-01 (first published: 2011-02-18)
4,004 reads
Search for a specified GUID (or its part) in all databases (updated)
This procedure searches for the specified GUID (or its part) in all (or selected one) databases
2011-02-21 (first published: 2008-01-24)
932 reads
Compare databases structure
This procedure is supposed to compare structure (tables, procedures, triggers, foraign keys etc.) of two specified databases.
2008-10-27 (first published: 2008-08-19)
3,077 reads
Show all database's tables' columns' collations.
Created view displays all text columns' collations in the current database with the information whether
the collation is different from the database's one.
2008-04-04 (first published: 2008-01-22)
1,727 reads
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