Determine the table dependencies is challenging sometime but we can easily resolve this by using a simple stored procedure which SQL Server provides. By using this stored procedure we can easily determine all the dependencies of particular table. The stored procedure is sp_msdependencies We can use this stored procedure as shown below Execute sp_msdependencies …
It might be already known to you but I thought for sharing because I frequently use this command and it is very useful command. When someone wants to determine detail of a function or stored procedure he/she can use this useful command. The syntax is very simple. Just write sp_helptext Storedprocedure/ functionname For example …
One of the good sentence I remember “When someone has teeth he/she is not having nuts and when someone has nuts he/she not having teeth”. Just joke a part. You understand what I mean to say here. If you have the resources then utilize it. One of the most most important aspect in performance …
Friends, Sometimes it might be possible that you have to run dos command from SQL SERVER. In such situation you have to enable the xp_cmdShell option of sql configuration. To enable this we can write following statement EXEC sp_configure ‘show advanced options’, 1;GORECONFIGURE;GOEXEC sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’, 1;GORECONFIGURE;GO Just wanted to share that it can be a …
While working on a project sometimes it happened that we need to shift the database from one server to another due to various reason (sometimes it is only money ). We are aware that this easy step take backup and restore another machine but glitch is what about the users which have access to the …
Happy new year 2015 . Suppose you have a source table and one destination table (Which is exact replica of source table) and you want to copy all the rows of source table into destination table. Now the challenging part here is that there is an identity column and in source & destination table …
I am pretty much sure by the title of this post you had idea of the post content. Although I am late to post this feature but anyways Change Tracking (CT) is a feature came in SQL SERVER 2008. As the name mention it track the changes like DELETE, INSERT , UPDATE type DML …
Sometimes, we may require to reseed identity column of a table due to various reason. For example we have deleted a record from a Student which have an identity column StudentId. Below is schema Now it has 3 rows as shown below Now suppose we have deleted record 3 which is studentID 3. Now …
Although it is a old feature for those who knows ORACLE but for SQL server developers it is a new feature. Let understand it by an example. Suppose we want an auto incremented column a part from primary key which is a identity column, then to achieve this we can use sequence feature. We can …
When you do SQL Server maintenance one of important aspect is available space on server drive because your SQL SERVER data is dependent on space . Now what you need to do to get free space from each drive ? Just create a simple job which run on daily basis which send you space …