Monitor database size
Display disk space, unallocated space in every your database and write resutl in table USED_DISK for analisys
2002-03-19
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Scripts
Get BCP out for all tables in a DB
The script mentioned below will export data in all tables into textfiles to a physical path on your system using BCP utility from a Database. The sql commands used in this stored procedure are BCP utility,Identity function and temporary tables. Here you required to give 4 input parameters, they […]
2002-03-15
2,185 reads
Script to Find Locations of Specified Column
Use this script to find tables, views, stored procedures that directly reference a column in the SELECT statement or in a join. This script will also return stored procedure and view names that have SELECT * in them when the specified column exists in the table referenced by that SELECT statement.
2002-03-15
1,048 reads
Detect the Amount of Wasted Data Space in a Table for 2000
SP_WASTED_SPACE will run through each column in your database and print a report of all the character columns. It will then print a report with :* The maximum length that a column is storing* The average length of data stored in each column* The amount of wasted space in each column* Hints on how to […]
2002-03-14
1,123 reads
Display Rows/Space Used by all user tables
This procedure will display the rows, reserved, data, index and unused space used in KB for all user tables in the database. The idea is to call sp_spaceused repeatedly. Limitation: certain versions of sp_spaceused will truncate the table name to 20 characters.Speed will depend on current activity level and locking in the database. It will […]
2002-03-14
396 reads
Drop table indexes, constraints and statistics
Drop all indexes, constraints and statistics for given table.
2002-03-14
1,191 reads
Generate MetaData XML Document
Generates a XML document containing metadata on a specified table. Table name is provided to the procedure.
2002-03-13
579 reads
Backup a database
This procedure when executed with the correct parameters, backs up a database in the specified directory pathUsage :exec USP_BACKUPDATABASE databasename, directory_path
2002-03-12
581 reads
Display Row Count for all Tables
This short and simple script is a very fast way to count the rows in all your indexed tables. I ran it against a 2-gigabyte database containing large tables (some with over a million rows!), and it returned results in under a second.
2002-03-12
2,856 reads
Script to drop all indexes on a table
Given a table name as the parameter, all the indexes on the table can be dropped. This script can be useful if you want to drop indexes on a table inside another procedure
2002-03-12
13,400 reads
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Superseded Indexes
Which of these indexes is superseded by another?
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