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How to drop all tables, all views, and all stored procedures from a SQL Server 2005 Database?

Published 20 May 8 3:12 AM | SSQA.net

It may not be a hardcore requirement on day-to-day basis to drop all tables, views and stored procedures from a SQL Server database within your environment, but it will be handy to have such a code at your end when such task is required. There are 2 ways...

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SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition - make data available while creating indexes on large tables!

Published 25 January 8 3:41 AM | SSQA.net

Though it is not a best practice to perform a CREATE INDEX on large tables during the online hours where you have number of users accessing the metadata of SQL Server database. Within SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition you can perform ONLINE indexes operation...

Filed under: sql server, performance, indexes, cache, users, tsql, best practice, backups, create, online, monitoring, operating system, busy, creation

TSQL to get SQL Server properties - How do I know which version of SQL Server I'm running?

Published 21 December 7 3:34 AM | SSQA.net

Use the following TSQL SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') Collation, SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') Edition, SERVERPROPERTY('Engine Edition') EngineEdition, SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') InstanceName, SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered'...

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SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring - basics and related resources

Published 10 December 7 4:33 AM | SSQA.net

To provide High Availability feature within your database environment you could take advantage of Database Mirroring when using SQL Server 2005. As with all critical databases, minimizing data loss and downtime are of the highest importance. Having "AlwaysOn"...

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TSQL Event Handling with TRY and CATCH in SQL Server 2005 - simple method

Published 10 December 7 4:18 AM | SSQA.net

Event Handling is a major part in any application development that includes the error-handling code that is producing errors. Until previous versions of SQL Server capturing error-handling code is bit hard to implement, as you may be aware within SQL...

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Ways to make best use of INFORMATION_SCHEMA Views - Stored procedures & Functions?

Published 15 October 7 7:59 AM | SSQA.net

How many of you took help from using INFORMATION_SCHEMA views in SQL Server? Have you ever wondered in returning the informaiton of a Stored procedure or function, you may be thinking using SP_HELPTEXT would get you. Parts of the solution is yes with...

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Getting table name from column name

Published 15 September 7 7:23 AM | SSQA.net

If you know the name of one column you want to find from which table that is originated, to retrieve the table name you can use following TSQL: SELECT CASE (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS AS c2 WHERE c2.TABLE_NAME = c1.TABLE_NAME AND...

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