SQLPS Meets the DMV's
This is a great wrapper for your DMV's to automate a quick performance metric capture.
2016-01-12 (first published: 2016-01-06)
418 reads
Edward Pochinski
xp_cmdshell error return value
The error checking seems to work better than the @@error after exiting out of a xp_cmdshell DOS task concerning a failed or successfull attempt.
2003-09-26
526 reads
2002-06-04
456 reads
sp_dba_checkblocked fix for sp_NotifyBlock
Problems with error 512 more than 1 result returned due to the operator outside of the query. Found this when tested with multiple blocks going on at once. It worked fine when there was only 1 block. Depending on the type of server there can be a "whole lot of blocking going on "Replaced with […]
2002-01-01
812 reads
Table Space for Each Table
This uses sp_MStablespace from an article on this site and a cursor to run against all tables in the context of the db it is called in. One catch is it does not like table names with spaces.
2001-12-30
748 reads
Determine Who Has SA Access
This simple view will return the name, loginname,hasaccess,dbname and create date and updatedate where sysadmin or serveradmin is set to 1 from the syslogin table. If the hasaccess column is set to 1 the access is granted.
2001-12-28
1,305 reads
OSQL Process Watcher
These 2 files plus sleep.exe (Resource kit) gives an administrator a good view of important blocking statistics in almost a real time fashion. You can use this with profiler to obtain some unique information very fast on a lead blocker if your gathering the right counters in profiler and dumping them in a table and […]
2001-12-10
530 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
2,532 reads
DBCC SHOWCONTIG in all Tables
Use this script to see showcontig for all tables in the context of the database in which its called. Very handy to schedule during off peak hours prior to any re-indexing to see how bad things are and re-build certain indexes sooner than you thought for peak performance.
2001-08-20
4,133 reads
Script to Zip a Backup File
A handy dandy proc that can be used to zip up a backup file to location specified. Also called from a backup script to automate the compression of all backups using PKZip command line utility. Make sure pkzip is in the path and found by the shell prior to using this script.
2001-08-20
3,722 reads
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Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
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