The Daily Dose

How To Find the Objects and Columns a Stored Procedure or View Uses

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

In my last post I covered finding objects that reference another object using the dmf, sys.dm_sql_referencing_entities.  (https://www.sqlrx.com/finding_things_sql_that_reference_a_table/ )  Now let’s reverse that and find what objects are referenced in stored procedures or views.  When updates are needed to business logic often that happens in these objects.  If the stored procedures or views are large with […]

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Finding Things in SQL That Reference a Table

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Object Information , SQL Administration , SQL Development , SQL Server

Have you ever been asked to make changes to a table that is used by other things/processes? One of the challenges is to figure out what will be impacted by the change. This way you can know what to check and test so that the change is rolled out with success. One good place to […]

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Using sp_help To Find Object Dependencies

By Lori Brown | Dependencies , Miscellaneous , Object Information , SQL Development , SQL Server

I have been working on some things lately that have required that I find objects with specific data types and collations and then find those objects dependent objects and anything else that uses those objects. My end goal was to ultimately create drop and create statements for the things I found since we were changing […]

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Get a List of all SQL Instances on a Server

By Lori Brown | Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server , SQL Toolkit

It is pretty common that I frequently am asked to take over a server with SQL on it sight unseen. Many times shops many not be fully aware if additional instances are or have been installed on their server. Since I am working on a set of scripts that we can use for discovery on […]

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SSMS Shortcuts

By Lori Brown | SQL Development , SQL Server

Thought I would post some quick helpful things like shortcuts in SSMS. There is a link to a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts for SSMS at the end of this post. There is more than just ctrl-c & crtl-v out there!! Here are my fav’s – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/sql-server-management-studio-keyboard-shortcuts For more information about blog posts, concepts and […]

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Index REORGANIZE Generates Out of Space Messages

By Lori Brown | Indexes , SQL Administration , SQL Maintenance , SQL Server

I was doing some performance analysis at a client where we captured a traditional SQL trace.  Our client has SQL 2016 Enterprise that is fully patched up and uses Ola Hallengren’s IndexOptimize (https://ola.hallengren.com/) stored proc to do nightly index maintenance.  While the index maintenance ran, we caught over a hundred thousand Error 1105, Severity 17, […]

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Alert for Tempdb Growth

By Lori Brown | SQL Administration , SQL Server

Tempdb is a system database used in SQL Server to hold 1) temporary user objects like temp tables and stored procedures, 2) internal objects like work tables used for sorting, and 3) row versions created from data modification transactions. When configuring a new SQL Server, the tempdb should be set to a size that will […]

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Interesting New String Functions

By Lori Brown | SQL Development , SQL Server

Here are a few new string functions that I cam across while doing some research.  Just goes to show you that you learn something new every day! STRING_AGG (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/string-agg-transact-sql) This function is available starting with SQL 2017. It concatenates values from rows and places your separator in between the values. Here I create a comma […]

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How Enabling Change Tracking Can Cause Backup Failure

By Lori Brown | Backup and Restore , Helpful Scripts , SQL Administration , SQL Server

Recently I had a client who contacted me because all of the sudden the backup for a couple of databases started to fail. While those backups had been running successfully in the past they suddenly started failing with this message: With a little more digging he found more info. Here is more verbiage from the […]

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