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Sometimes we need to find out the size of the database on a server. Below SQL Scripts can be used to find out the size of all the databases created on the server. ;WITH DBSize (SqlServerInstanceName, DatabaseName, DatabaseSize, DBLogSize, TotalDBSize) AS ( SELECT @@SERVERNAME SqlServerInstanceName, db.name AS … Read more
Below query can be used to see the growth size of database files. DECLARE @filename NVARCHAR(1000); DECLARE @bc INT; DECLARE @ec INT; DECLARE @bfn VARCHAR(1000); DECLARE @efn VARCHAR(10); — Get the name of the current default trace SELECT @filename = CAST(value AS NVARCHAR(1000)) FROM ::fn_trace_getinfo(DEFAULT) WHERE traceid = 1 AND property = 2; — rip … Read more
Sometimes we need to check which tables of our database is highly populated. Below is the T-SQL Script which we can use to find out that. SELECT t.NAME AS TableName, i.name as indexName, sum(p.rows) as RowCounts, sum(a.total_pages) as TotalPages, sum(a.used_pages) as UsedPages, sum(a.data_pages) … Read more
Sometimes we needs to find out the last executed commands on the database server. Below is the SQL script share by one of my friend Ken Watson to find out the last executed queries. SELECT usecounts, cacheobjtype, objtype, text FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(plan_handle) WHERE usecounts > 1 ORDER BY usecounts DESC; About Ken He … Read more
Script to find the Fragmentation in Indexes In my previous articles, Fragmentation in SQL Server and Rebuild And Reorganization of Indexes , we talk in detail about Index fragmentation and rebuild or reorganize the indexes. Below is the SQL script which we can use to find the Fragmentation in Indexes created on the database. SELECT OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID), index_id,index_type_desc,index_level, … Read more
Below is the query to find out all the Queries and their details like SSID etc. running on the SQL Server from all databases. It helps in finding out which queries/jobs running on the server. It can be helpful in detecting the blocking queries also. USE Master SET NOCOUNT ON SET ANSI_PADDING ON SET … Read more
In this article, I am going to explain the process of Database restoration using the SQL Server Management Studio. In this article, I will try to explain this process in a simple way so that a database developer having little knowledge of DBA can restore that database using the database backup.For database restoration process, we … Read more
Introduction This article explain the simple way to take the database backup in SQL SERVER which can be easily understandable by the database programmer having little knowledge of DBA. For taking the database backup, we need to follow the given step.Step 1:- Open the SQL Sever Management Studio. For this we have to follow the following … Read more
In the previous article (Database Creation using Create Database command), I explained the database creation using the Create database command. In this article, I am going to explain the steps of creation a database using SQL Sever Management Studio (SSMS) using SQL Server 2008 R2. These below database creation steps will be same for SQLServer … Read more
In SQL Server, database can be created by 2 ways:- Using Create Database command Using SQL Sever Management Studio (SSMS). In this article, I am going to explain the database creation using the command CREATE DATABASE. Syntax for creating a database through Create database command is given below:- CREATE DATABASE ‘Database name’ ON PRIMARY … Read more
