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How to create and refresh development and test databases automatically, using SQL Clone and SQL Toolbelt

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Phil Factor shows how a set of Redgate tools can be used together, via PowerShell, to build a database from object-level source, stock it with data, document it, and then provision any number of test and development servers. Before tearing down and rebuilding a database to a new version, we take care to save any DDL changes made to the existing copy.

2019-04-10

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RE: special situation... full text search for anything?

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Not exactly sure about your question, but : SELECT fulltextcatalogproperty('Catalogue_name', 'PopulateCompletionAge')  Returns the difference in seconds between the completion of the last full-text index population and 01/01/1990 00:00:00. This can be manipulted according to the requirement.

2005-05-27

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Table rowcount

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Does any one have a script handy that gives you the rowcount of all user tables on a database. I have one but it gets the result from sysindexes which sometimes is notuptodate. Also I wont prefer anything witha  cursor as that might slow down the server. any scripts other than these two.Thanks

2005-05-27

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sp_getAppLock which Resource are locked?

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Hello Everyone,Is there a way to get information on resource name that are locked using the stored procedure sp_getAppLock?The server seem to expose the first 4 characters of the resource locked but encode the remaining with headecimal values (if we look using sp_lock or in syslockinfo).We would avoid to try to lock the resource in […]

2005-05-19

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RE: Permissions

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Public access gives the user what ever permissions are assigned to the public role.You can have one database owner, but many people in the dbo group. dbo's have full access to the database in question.

2005-05-18

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RE: Design Question

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I think this may lead to some users picking up a phone and either complain about missing data or the error displayed or the funny rules that this field can only be so many chars when that field contains so x chars, etc. Secondly, if frontend apply the rules it should be ok, till some […]

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