You don't have to try and decipher what instance you are running. The extended stored procedure xp_instance_regread does all the functionality of xp_regread and automatically knows which instance in the registry it should look at.
2003-06-06
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This a script which creates stored procedures that can be executed adhoc or set as sql agent jobs to check the recovery status and generate full, differential or transaction log backupf for each database if the database recovery status is set to full. We have terabytes of data and set all production databases […]
2003-06-06
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2 steps:step 1 => create a table in master database called BlockCheckstep 2 => create the stored procedure in master called BLOCK_CHECK @database_name varchar(20)What SP does:- it gets the spid that is blocked + info about it (like what it does at the moment it is blocked)- it gets the spid that acts as a […]
2003-06-05
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This stored Procedure can be used to force restores the database by killing all the process running over this database.
2003-06-05
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Retrieve SQL Server port number from registry. Useful for SQL Servers running named instances or non-standard TCP port numbers.
2003-06-04
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In your tenure as a DBA/developer, you've probably been asked to write dozens of stored procedures similar to this:CREATE PROCEDURE ContactInfo@ContactID intASSELECT c.Name, a.Address, p.PhoneFROM Contact cLEFT JOIN ContactAddress aON c.ContactID = a.ContactIDLEFT JOIN ContactPhone pON c.ContactID = p.ContactIDWHERE c.ContactID = @ContactIDBut there is a more efficient way to write such a query.....particularly if you […]
2003-06-03
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This procedure shows you the MAC number of your Enthernet card in a format exactly the same as when running: ipconfig /all from command shell. Updated thx to Larry A.
2003-05-31
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Customers, employees, etc. come and go. They get entered multiple times in inconsistent formats in databases.This simple script finds the duplicates across multiple formats and is easily modified as needed. It's so easy, my grandmother could do it. Oops! No offense Grandma.For very large databases, create and join two temp tables indexed on the namedatetring […]
2003-05-30
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This procedure displays all user-defined datatypes in all databases on a server. Another example of the power of dynamic T-SQL, this procedure dynamically generates SELECT statements for the systypes tables in each database and UNIONs them together so that they display in one recordset.
2003-05-30
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This script will send a mail whenever it detects a Blocking process. You need SQL Mail configured on this server in order to use or you can specify the pager number @company.comEx:- 1234567789@Skytel.com
2003-05-29
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