This procedure is just another approach for getting a list of tables defined in a database, ordered by dependency on other tables based on foreign key relationship.I used it for a deployment process, where the TABLE create scripts must be executed in the correct order,because the foreign key constraints are specified in the create script […]
2003-04-18
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It is a painful experience for all us administrators to truncate logs regularly. I just created a job to executesp_msforeachdb "use ?; backup log ? with truncate_only ; dbcc shrinkfile(2,5)"on all the servers at frequent intervals. It has saved me a lot of time. hope it helps you too.n.b: I assume that file id 2 […]
2003-04-18
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This vbscript will generate the sql to recreate all the jobs running on a given SQL server. I wrote this because the last time we migrated a SQL server, I ended up re-creating all the jobs, steps and schedules by hand using the Enterprise Manager. It was the slowest, dullest and most error-prone part of […]
2003-04-17
821 reads
Using this technique you can do error handling in SQL Server using the same way you do in Visual Basic (most of it). Just put your SQL Statement in exec('SQL Command') and make use of @@Error to get error information and put your error handling code in If block.Mohit NayyarMCP (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA
2003-04-17
949 reads
If you ever have been put in a situation where your database has a lot of objects and some of those do not have primary keys, trying to find feels like needle in the haystack. I have modified the script contributed by Mr.Tandrei and Mr.Rahul sharma. The following script gives all the tables that do […]
2003-04-17
140 reads
This query will give you the table name and column name on which you have defined the primary key. You can use this to get columns on which the primary key is based. I find it very useful when i need to define the FK relationship for other tables in PowerDesigner. Try to do the […]
2003-04-16
1,637 reads
Copies the permissions from an existing database user to a new database user.Usage:exec copy_permissions_for_database 'From_User', 'To_User'* From_User must exist in the database.* To_User must not exist in the database.* To_User must exist as a login on the server.I used http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/sqlpermissionspublicrole_2.asp as a starting point.
2003-04-14
1,868 reads
Use this script to get Insert, Update and Delete trigger for all the tables. This script will give you just the first level of triggers. So if you have more than 1 insert trigger, it will give you the first one.Mohit NayyarMCP (.Net), MCSD, MCDBA
2003-04-14
268 reads
Here's a real-life challenge I was faced with at work: my company (a talent agency) needed me to create a report listing all of our actors that we represent - and for each actor, a comma-delimited string of each production that they've starred in. Simple enough, right......except that, within the comma-delimited list of productions, they […]
2003-04-11
748 reads
In few business applications inputs to the system is in the form of an TXT / CSV / Excel file(s).This script will help how to upload an Excel file in to SQL Server.
2003-04-10
499 reads
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