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Excellent Free Ebooks from RedGate

belle — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:39:25 +0000

Excellent Free Ebooks from RedGate SQL Server eBook Selection 1. Protecting SQL Server Data by John Magnabosco 2. The Art of High Performance SQL by Grant Fritchey 3. The Art of XSD by Jacob Sebastian 4. Two Minute SQL Server Stumpers Vol. 5 DBA Ebooks Bundle 1. Mastering SQL Server Profiler 2. Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008 3. Brad McGehee’s DBA Best [...]

SQL Server XML Red Gate Ebook, XQuery Labs

belle — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:35:09 +0000

Jacob Sebastian is a SQL Server XML Guru! Check out his collection for XQUery Labs. This is the first 12 of his series, and right now he has 43 and counting: XQuery Sample Scripts * XQuery Lab 1 – Transforming rows to columns * XQuery Lab 2 – An example using [...]

SQL Server PowerShell : Search for SQL Server Objects Using PowerShell

belle — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:49:31 +0000

I have posted previously 3 different ways of searching for SQL Server Objects (How to Search for Columns in SQL Server ). Here’s a fourth one! Check out how powerful and flexible PowerShell is when you need to look for a database object. In the script below, I only search databases, tables, columns, and indexes. [...]

SQL Server PowerShell : How to Audit Your SQL Server Instance Properties Using PowerShell and SMO

belle — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:11:27 +0000

Here is a simple script to audit your SQL Server Instance Properties. Note that the property names are not hardcoded. We query each of these properties, and use those to display the property values. If you prefer, you can also query directly each of the properties of an instance. If this is the case, just specify your [...]

SQL Server PowerShell : How to Restore SQL Server Databases Using SMO and PowerShell

belle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:05:34 +0000

A follow-up to my previous post: How to Restore SQL Server Databases Using SMO and PowerShell In this post I will show you how you can restore your database to : 1. the existing database (same database name) 2. a different database (different database name, different mdf and ldf) As with the previous post, to do a SQL Server [...]

SQL Server PowerShell : How to Backup SQL Server Databases Using SMO and PowerShell

belle — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:04:27 +0000

PowerShell makes it easier to manage even your database backups and restore. To do a SQL Server backup in SQL Server, you will need to use the SMO SqlBackup method. In SQL Server 2008, you will need to load Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended assembly otherwise, you will get the following error: Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Backup]: make sure the assembly [...]

SQL Server PowerShell : How to List SQL Server Services using PowerShell

belle — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:18:15 +0000

Catch: this lists any service that has “SQL” in it, so can potentially list MySQL services too ListAll SQL services #list stopped SQL Server services $computername = "APHRODITE" Get-WmiObject win32_service -computername $computername | select name, state | where { ($_.name -like "SQLAGENT*" -or $_.name -like "*SQL*") ` } Another way to do this: #note ComputerManagement works [...]

How to Get Definition for Stored Procedures, UDFs and Triggers using T-SQL

belle — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:51:29 +0000

If you want to list the definition for a stored procedure, User Defined Function, or Trigger, you can use one of the following ways: Alternative 1: sp_helptext (T-SQL) -- using sp_helptext sp_helptext 'dbo.your_object_name' Alternative 2: syscomments (T-SQL) -- using syscomments SELECT [text] FROM sys.syscomments WHERE OBJECT_NAME(id) = 'your_object_name' Alternative 3: OBJECT_DEFINITION (T-SQL) -- using built in function OBJECT_DEFINITION SELECT OBJECT_DEFINITION(OBJECT_ID('your_object_name')) Share : Related posts:How to Drop All [...]