Know who all the individual group members are for a given WINDOWS_GROUP login. This script uses the sys.xp_logininfo procedure to find group members for each login on an instance. This is useful when attempting to remove orphaned WINDOWS_LOGINS. May have issues working across your logged in domain.
2020-03-23 (first published: 2020-03-13)
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Easily graph your storage needs based on msdb backup data recorded automatically, no matter what your backup solution is.
2020-03-17 (first published: 2020-03-10)
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This script will find all orphaned users on all databases on an instance, and generate a script to drop each user. Simply execute, copy the values from the DropScript column to a new SSMS window and execute. There are two risks with this script. Use with caution: This script attempts to take into account users […]
2020-03-16 (first published: 2020-03-13)
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The script searches through every column of every record in a database to find a value. It works with numbers too. Simply assign a value to @MyString. Indicate what datatype(s) you wish to search through, and indicate if you want wildcards, and execute. The search is smart and will only search through columns where @MyString is […]
2020-03-05 (first published: 2020-03-02)
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This script finds auto created statistics that duplicate existing stats generated by indexes, and may help to speed up your statistics maintenance. Copy the results from the DropScript column to a new SSMS tab and execute.
2020-02-21
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This script returns a list of all the fields of a table with it properties, primary keys and user defined types.
2020-01-21 (first published: 2014-04-30)
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Dropping database in RDS follows different method than dropping the database in local SQL Server. Below is the command to DROP the database in Amazon RDS EXECUTE msdb.dbo.rds_drop_database N'demodb' GO However when the SQL Server is configured with Multi-zone mirroring, then you need to set the partner to OFF and drop all active connections and […]
2020-01-17
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2019-12-20 (first published: 2019-12-10)
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T-SQL script to purge all the tables including foreign key references. The script has been made smart enough to use TRUNCATE wherever there is no foreign key reference and to use DELETE wherever there is foreign key reference.
2019-12-10
2,486 reads
An alternative for Microsoft's STRING_SPLIT function that will work on SQL Server 2012 and higher.
2019-12-05 (first published: 2019-02-28)
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I have run this on SQL Server 2022 for the Sales database:
ALTER DATABASE Sales SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON (INCREMENTAL = ON)I then run this in the Sales database:
USE Sales GO CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON dbo.Customer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH INCREMENTAL = OFFThe dbo.Customer table is partitioned. How are statistics created? See possible answers