Author: Deepak
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Database Documentation
Almost every application DBA would have a need to document the various database objects such as tables, views, stored procedures and functions. I wasn’t an exception and exploring ways to document the 400+ tables we have. Basically, this would serve the following purpose:
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Recent Objects – Without Triggers
I was thinking about writing a script to capture the objects that were either CREATED/DELETED or MODIFIED in the last 24hrs. Instead of directly querying the sys.objects I from where I can only get minimal information I decided to get a whole bunch of useful information using the SQL Server default trace. By default the…
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Attach all user databases
I was doing an upgrade of one of our development servers to SQL Server 2008. To minimize the downtime I decided to attach all the user databases using script. Basically, I am attaching the db from the same location there were present earlier to being detached. Consider the following example, If I have a database…
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Index fragmentation Report
I had to prepare the list of tables having more than 60% fragmentation. I wrote this query to get those information. The below query will give the list of all the fragmented tables in a particular database having more than 60% fragmentation. This will work for SQL 2005 and beyond.
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Function to Split Comma separated string to Integer
There are cases where we need to pass the input parameter to the stored procedure as a comma-separated string in order to avoid multiple db calls from happening. This helps in reducing the db calls thereby reducing the load on the db server. The below function will split the given comma-separated string into integers and…