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Hi friends, this T-SQL tips is about how you can retrieve the version name a SQL Server instance using the @@VERSION system function in SQL Server. The T-SQL Script for Retrieving the Version Name Here’s the script. As you can see, in order to retrieve the version name for the SQL Server instance we … Read more…
Here’s a quick T-SQL tip on getting the paths for all database files in a SQL Server instance. The T-SQL Tip You can get the list of paths for all database files (both data and log files) using the undocumented SQL Server stored procedure sp_MSforeachdb. You can use the below T-SQL statement: exec sp_MSforeachdb @command1=”USE … Read more…
There are many cases where a DBA needs to perform a task against all databases in a SQL Server instance. In order to avoid the process of just changing a part of the statement or switching to the target database and executing the T-SQL statement each time, there are some options that can help you. … Read more…
In this article, I am publishing a stored procedure (DBStats) I have recently written and which given a database name as an input parameter it returns the below basic information: TotalTables TotalViews TotalSPs TotalFunctions TotalDMLTriggers TotalDBSize (MB) LogSize (MB) List of all tables with their number of columns Sample Output of DBStats The below … Read more…
In this article, we will be discussing about, how you can easily list all tables of a linked SQL Server database. Introduction There are many scenarios in the DBMSs world where you might need to use a linked server between two different SQL Server instances in order to execute direct queries between them. However, the majority … Read more…
This post, is actually a T-SQL tip, on how to easily insert leading characters to a string. The Scenario for Inserting Leading Characters Consider that you have a fixed-length table column for which you want to add leading characters, so that all its records, values with the same number of characters. How to Insert Leading … Read more…
—— Retrieves Security-Related Information— for all the SQL Server Logins—— SQL Server versions supported: SQL Server 2005 or later—SELECT [name] as LoginName,LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘DefaultDatabase’) as DefaultDatabase,LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘DaysUntilExpiration’) as DaysUntilExpiration,(CASE ISNULL(LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘IsExpired’),0) WHEN 0 THEN ‘False’ ELSE ‘True’ END) as IsExpired,(CASE ISNULL(LOGINPROPERTY ([name] , ‘IsLocked’),0) WHEN 0 THEN ‘False’ ELSE ‘True’ END) … Read more…
Yeah, I know, who would ever want to do that (!) but the purpose of this post is not to illustrate how you can actually get all the records from all tables in all user databases (even though it shows how to do it) but rather to provide an example of how we can dynamically … Read more…
—— Dynamically builds T-SQL statements for retrieving the file — locations for all the databases in the SQL Server Instance—— SQL Server versions supported: SQL Server 2005 or later—SELECT ‘use ‘+ [name]+’; select ”’+[name]+”’ as DBName,cast ([name] as varchar(45)) as LogicalFileName,cast (filename as varchar(100)) as FileName from sysfiles;’ as SQLStatement FROM master.sys.databases Details: Just execute the statements generated … Read more…
If you are looking for a T-SQL tip, on how to create a simple linked server between SQL Server instances, then the below tip might come in handy. T-SQL Example for Creating the Linked Server The below T-SQL code does just that: — –Note: The Entire Operation Takes Place on the Local Instance — … Read more…
I know, there are standard reports and other GUI tools for doing this task for SQL Server 2005 or later but what about when you need to extract such information from a SQL Server 2000 instance or when you just want to write some code? 🙂 Get the disk usage statistics using the undocumented … Read more…
With the below T-SQL script, you can get basic SQL Server instance info such as: Full instance name SQL Server version Edition Collation Number of databases Product level (i.e. SP-level) …and more The T-SQL Script The script uses the built-in SQL Server function SERVERPROPERTY. SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘ServerName’) AS FullInstanceName, REPLACE(SUBSTRING(@@version,0,CHARINDEX(‘-‘,@@version)),’Microsoft ‘,”) as FullSQLVersion, SERVERPROPERTY(‘ProductVersion’) AS ProductVersion, SERVERPROPERTY(‘ProductLevel’) … Read more…
The following script generates T-SQL statements that when ran, they return file size information for all the user databases on a SQL Server instance. –Script that generates T-SQL providing size information for all database files on a SQL Server InstanceSELECT ‘SELECT ”’+[name]+”’ as DBName,cast(f.name as varchar(25)) as DBFileName,f.Filename as PhysicalFileName,cast (round((f.size*8)/1024.0,2) as decimal(18,2)) as FileSizeinMB … Read more…
Hello friends! I hope you are all having a great summer time! I am having a great summer time too, however I felt the need for some summer-blogging and so here I am, writing another article! 🙂 I will start this article with a simple question: How many times we all search the Web for … Read more…
In an older post, we have discussed about, how you could rebuild all the indexes of a database in SQL Server by making use of the undocumented stored procedure “sp_MSforeachtable”. Retrieving Table Size Info using sp_MSforeachtable Another common task is when you want to retrieve size information for all the tables in a database. … Read more…