Category Archives for "Helpful Scripts"

May 04

List Partitioned Tables And Other Info About Them

By Lori Brown | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , Partitions , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

Here is a good way to find out if any of your tables are partitioned in your database using the query below. It is important to know so that you can find out how the tables are partitioned. — Partitioned Tables SELECT DISTINCT t.name AS ParitionedTables FROM sys.partitions p INNER JOIN sys.tables t ON p.object_id […]

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Apr 13

List Tables That May Be Over Indexed

By Lori Brown | Beginner , Helpful Scripts , Performance Tuning , SQL Administration , SQL Server , Tip of the Month

While not having enough indexes can be bad for query performance, having too many indexes can also be just as bad. Use the query below to get a list of tables in your database that has more than 10 indexes. — Tables with large number of indexes select t.name as TablesWithLargeNumInx, count(i.name) as CountIndexes from […]

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Jan 19

Find Currently Executing Jobs Running Longer Than 30 Day Average

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

–By Lori Brown   @SQLSupahStah I needed to update some of our long running job monitoring code to improve it from the version that we have right now. I like this version because it uses msdb.dbo.syssessions (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175016.aspx) to validate that a job is actually running. I also wanted to know the percent difference between the current […]

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Oct 08

AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Enable or Disable Jobs on Failover

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

— By Lori Brown  @SQLSupahStah After reading up on AlwaysOn Monitoring and Alerting (http://blog.sqlrx.com/2015/08/27/alwayson-monitoring-and-alerting/), I was asked to come up with a way to automatically enable jobs that may only need to run on the primary replica of an availability group. Requirements were that on failover of an AlwaysOn Availability Group some jobs should be […]

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