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SQL SERVER – Shrinking Truncate Log File – Log Full

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Log, SQL Scripts
UPDATE: Please follow link for SQL SERVER – SHRINKFILE and TRUNCATE Log File in SQL Server 2008. Sometime, it looks impossible to shrink the Truncated Log file. Following code always shrinks the Truncated Log File to minimum size possible. USE DatabaseName GO DBCC SHRINKFILE(<TransactionLogName>, 1) BACKUP LOG <DatabaseName> WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY…
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SQL SERVER – Fix : Error 14274: Cannot add, update, or delete a job (or its steps or schedules) that originated from an MSX server. The job was not saved.

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
To fix the error which occurs after the Windows server name been changed, when trying to update or delete the jobs previously created in a SQL Server 2000 instance, or attaching msdb database. Error 14274: Cannot add, update, or delete a job (or its steps or schedules) that originated from…
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SQL SERVER – Find Stored Procedure Related to Table in Database – Search in All Stored Procedure

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL Utility
Following code will help to find all the Stored Procedures (SP) which are related to one or more specific tables. sp_help and sp_depends does not always return accurate results. ----Option 1 SELECT DISTINCT so.name FROM syscomments sc INNER JOIN sysobjects so ON sc.id=so.id WHERE sc.TEXT LIKE '%tablename%' ----Option 2 SELECT DISTINCT o.name, o.xtype FROM syscomments c INNER JOIN sysobjects o…
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SQL SERVER – Cursor to Kill All Process in Database

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Cursor, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
When you run the script please make sure that you run it in different database then the one you want all the processes to be killed. CREATE TABLE #TmpWho (spid INT, ecid INT, status VARCHAR(150), loginame VARCHAR(150), hostname VARCHAR(150), blk INT, dbname VARCHAR(150), cmd VARCHAR(150)) INSERT INTO #TmpWho EXEC sp_who DECLARE @spid…
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SQL SERVER – Simple Cursor to Select Tables in Database with Static Prefix and Date Created

Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Cursor, SQL DateTime, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure

Following cursor query runs through the database and find all the table with certain prefixed (‘b_’,’delete_’). It also checks if the Table is more than certain days old or created before certain days, it will delete it. We can have any other operation on that table like to delete, print or index.

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SQL SERVER – Query to Find ByteSize of All the Tables in Database

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
SELECT CASE WHEN (GROUPING(sob.name)=1) THEN 'All_Tables'    ELSE ISNULL(sob.name, 'unknown') END AS Table_name,    SUM(sys.length) AS Byte_Length FROM sysobjects sob, syscolumns sys WHERE sob.xtype='u' AND sys.id=sob.id GROUP BY sob.name WITH CUBE Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
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SQL SERVER – Query to Display Foreign Key Relationships and Name of the Constraint for Each Table in Database

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Constraint and Keys, SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure
UPDATE : SQL SERVER – 2005 – Find Tables With Foreign Key Constraint in Database This is very long query. Optionally, we can limit the query to return results for one or more than one table. SELECT K_Table = FK.TABLE_NAME, FK_Column = CU.COLUMN_NAME, PK_Table = PK.TABLE_NAME, PK_Column = PT.COLUMN_NAME, Constraint_Name…
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