In my working environment I’ve asked to write a script to find security information which should return Server Logins, Database Logins and object level permissions. I’ve written that and I’m sharing this to you since this could be helpful to you.

Ive written a script to find the job activity details, this script will give the output similar to job activity monitor in SQL2K5 or SQL2K8. In my working place we had a request to collect the job details from all the servers which includes all version of SQL Server. Ive tried sp_help_jobactivity for SQL2K5 SQL2k8, however it doesnt provide the columns needed. So Ive written a script to get customized output, this script will also work with SQL2K. The script will fetch the following details

Ive written this script to get details of row count in all the tables in all the database including the system database. You can modify the script to exclude system database if you dont need details for that. You can see that I havent use COUNT() function to get these values, If I run using this function for all the db then it will take more time and resource.

This script will help you to determine the objects existence in a filegroup. You can get on which file group does a object exists. Change dbname before using the script.

I was trying to find a alert which could fire immediately upon any of the job failure in the server to send an email. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any the alert related to this. So I thought of writing a DML trigger which should fire immediately when an entry is inserted in sysjobhistory table on msdb database. The next step is that the trigger should send a mail when there is failure in the job, hence Ive used run_status column in the table, as all the DBAs know when this column has a value 0 then it states the job has been failed. Ive tried this script in SQL Server greater than version 2000 however its not working on it. This script works only on SQL Server 2000, still some of them are still working on SQL 2000 so I thought this script has still value. This DML trigger will send an email upon any of the job failure.