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Steps to script out the primary key constraints or clustered indexes in a database using DMO

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Why do you need this? One of the drawbacks of the “Generate Scripts” option in SQL Server Management Studio is that SSMS scripts out the Primary Key constraints along with the CREATE TABLE script. So, if the table is already created, the primary key will not be created if you use the script that was generated by the SSMS Generate Scripts Wizard. 

The steps that you need to follow are for generating the primary key constraints or clustered indexes for user defined tables: 

1. You will have to create the Stored Procedure from my previous blog post on the source database. 

2. Then enable the OLE AUTOMATION and XP_CMDSHELL on the server. 

EXEC sp_configure 'Show Advanced',1

reconfigure with override

go

EXEC sp_configure 'Ole Automation',1

reconfigure with override

go

EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell',1

reconfigure with override

go

 

3. Use the following script to generate the list of Primary Keys for user defined tables in a database: 

Script for generating primary key creation script: 

set nocount on 

print 'DECLARE @return_value int ' 

select ' 

EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[proc_genscript] 

@ServerName = ''SQLSERVER NAME'', /*Replace this with the SQL server name*/ 

@DBName = ''Northwind'', /*Replace this with the database name*/ 

@ObjectName = '''+[name]+''', 

@ObjectType = ''KEY'', 

@TableName = ''' +object_name(parent_object_id)+''', 

@ScriptFile = ''C:\Database\'+[name]+'.sql'' /* Replace this with the directory path where you want the create scripts to be saved */ 

SELECT ''Return Value '' = @return_value'+char(13) 

from sys.objects 

where type = 'PK' 

and parent_object_id in (select id from sys.sysobjects where xtype = 'U')

Script for generating clustered indexes creation script: 

set nocount on 

print 'DECLARE @return_value int ' 

select ' 

EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[proc_genscript] 

@ServerName = ''SQLSERVER NAME'', /*Replace this with the SQL server name*/ 

@DBName = ''Northwind'', /*Replace this with the database name*/ 

@ObjectName = '''+[name]+''', 

@ObjectType = ''INDEX'', @TableName = ''' +object_name(id)+''', 

@ScriptFile = ''C:\Database\'+[name]+'.sql'' /* Replace this with the directory path where you want the create scripts to be saved */ 

SELECT ''Return Value '' = @return_value'+char(13) 

from sys.objects 

where type = 'PK' 

and parent_object_id in (select id from sys.sysobjects where xtype = 'U')

4. Then use the scripts obtained from the above output to generate the Primary Key creation scripts in the folder that you mentioned. In the above example, the *.sql scripts would get created in the C:\Database folder. 

5. Then use the following script to generate the SQLCMD commands for running those *.sql scripts against the source database. 

create table #filenames (file_name varchar(1000))

insert into #filenames

exec xp_cmdshell 'dir <folder path>\*.sql /b'

select 'sqlcmd -S <servername> -d <databasename> -E -i ' +file_name

from #filenames

where file_name like '%sql%'

drop table #filenames

where  

<server name> = SQL Server instance name 

<database name> = Database Name on which you want the objects to be created 

<folder path> = the folder where you want the .sql file to be created. This has to be the same folder path where you saved the .sql files in Step 3. 

6. Now put the commands obtained in Step 5 into a .bat file saved at the same location where the .sql files were created in Step 5. Run the .BAT file from a command prompt window and all the script files will get executed against the context of the database that you provided. 

The above set of steps loops through the sysindexes system catalog and picks up all non-fulltext index and generates the CREATE INDEX scripts for all the user database tables using DMO. 

**** Before running this on a production database, please test out the above solution on a test database

How to find out how many objects of different types are there in a SQL database

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I have sometimes found the need on data corruption cases to compare the number of objects exported to the destination database with the source database to find out which objects got exported and which didn’t. You would need to run this script against the source and destination database and compare the output. 

One of the drawbacks of the “Generate Scripts” option in SQL Server Management Studio is that SSMS scripts out the Primary Key constraints along with the CREATE TABLE script. So, if the table is already created, the primary key will not be created if you use the script that was generated by the SSMS Generate Scripts Wizard. 

Script 

select 

CASE xtype 

WHEN 'C' THEN 'CHECK constraint' 

WHEN 'D' THEN 'Default or DEFAULT constraint ' 

WHEN 'F' THEN 'FOREIGN KEY constraint ' 

WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log ' 

WHEN 'FN' THEN 'Scalar function ' 

WHEN 'IF' THEN 'In-lined table-function ' 

WHEN 'P' THEN 'Stored procedure ' 

WHEN 'PK' THEN 'PRIMARY KEY constraint (type is K) ' 

WHEN 'RF' THEN 'Replication filter stored procedure' 

WHEN 'S' THEN 'System table ' 

WHEN 'TF' THEN 'Table function ' 

WHEN 'TR' THEN 'Trigger ' 

WHEN 'U' THEN 'User table ' 

WHEN 'UQ' THEN 'UNIQUE constraint (type is K) ' 

WHEN 'V' THEN 'View ' 

WHEN 'X' THEN 'Extended stored procedure' 

ELSE 'UNKNOWN' 

END, count(*) as counts 

from sys.sysobjects 

group by CASE xtype 

WHEN 'C' THEN 'CHECK constraint' 

WHEN 'D' THEN 'Default or DEFAULT constraint ' 

WHEN 'F' THEN 'FOREIGN KEY constraint ' 

WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log ' 

WHEN 'FN' THEN 'Scalar function ' 

WHEN 'IF' THEN 'In-lined table-function ' 

WHEN 'P' THEN 'Stored procedure ' 

WHEN 'PK' THEN 'PRIMARY KEY constraint (type is K) ' 

WHEN 'RF' THEN 'Replication filter stored procedure' 

WHEN 'S' THEN 'System table ' 

WHEN 'TF' THEN 'Table function ' 

WHEN 'TR' THEN 'Trigger ' 

WHEN 'U' THEN 'User table ' 

WHEN 'UQ' THEN 'UNIQUE constraint (type is K) ' 

WHEN 'V' THEN 'View ' 

WHEN 'X' THEN 'Extended stored procedure' 

ELSE 'UNKNOWN' 

END

Monitoring Merge Agent performance using T-SQL

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I have always loved writing T-SQL scripts and am ever-ready to write a T-SQL script when the opportunity presents itself. I just wrote another one for monitoring Merge Agent performance and spewing out some legible English to track the slow performing Merge Agents in your Replication Topology.

Read about it on:

http://blogs.msdn.com/repltalk/archive/2010/03/16/tracking-merge-agent-performance-using-distribution-database-system-tables.aspx

The script can be downloaded from either the above blog post or from the Script Center Gallery:

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/20467f5a-99f1-4313-9f12-6ac24346da14

Find FullText Search settings information for all catalogs & databases (in a jiffy)

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Good morning folks – Ever worked on full text search in SQL Server and found it frustrating due to lack of information when anything goes bad & you are left poking around on what information to collect. Here is a script that you can use to collect Full-text (FTS) information for catalogs in ALL your databases. This will tell you the following,

  • Catalog Name & catalog ID
  • Item count
  • Population Status
  • Is Change Tracking enabled or not
  • Last Crawl – was it FULL, Incremental or UPDATE. Also gives you time of last crawl
  • Path of catalog storage location
EXEC sp_msforeachdb 'IF EXISTS (select * from ?.sys.fulltext_catalogs) BEGIN PRINT ''In Database: ?'' SELECT cat.name AS [CatalogName], cat.fulltext_catalog_id AS [CatalogID], FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(cat.name,''LogSize'') AS [ErrorLogSize], FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(cat.name,''IndexSize'') AS [FullTextIndexSize], FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(cat.name,''ItemCount'') AS [ItemCount], FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(cat.name,''UniqueKeyCount'') AS [UniqueKeyCount], FULLTEXTCATALOGPROPERTY(cat.name,''PopulateStatus'') AS [PopulationStatus], tbl.change_tracking_state_desc AS [ChangeTracking], tbl.crawl_type_desc AS [LastCrawlType], tbl.crawl_start_date AS [LastCrawlSTARTDate], tbl.crawl_end_date AS [LastCrawlENDDate], ISNULL(cat.path,N'''') AS [RootPath], CAST((select(casewhen exists(select distinct object_id from sys.fulltext_indexes fti where cat.fulltext_catalog_id = fti.fulltext_catalog_id and OBJECTPROPERTY(object_id, ''IsTable'')=1)then 1 else 0 end)) AS bit) AS [HasFullTextIndexedTables] FROM ?.sys.fulltext_catalogs AS catLEFT OUTER JOIN ?.sys.filegroups AS fg ON cat.data_space_id = fg.data_space_id LEFT OUTER JOIN ?.sys.database_principals AS dp ON cat.principal_id=dp.principal_idLEFT OUTER JOIN ?.sys.fulltext_indexes AS tbl ON cat.fulltext_catalog_id = tbl.fulltext_catalog_id PRINT '''' END'

How to check database statistics last updated date/time & Percent Rows modified in SQL Server

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Well, here goes my first post – I will keep it simple. As a DBA you’ve probably heard people talking about statistics ALL the time. You probably have jobs/maintenance plans setup to update statistics. But if you ever ran into an issue with slow query performance and wanted to do a quick check on the statistics for ALL indexes in the database, you would use either dbcc show_statistics or sp_autostats. But they work per index/table. Here is a way to do this for the entire database using TSQL query,

— For SQL 2005/SQL 2008

select a.id as 'ObjectID', isnull(a.name,'Heap') as 'IndexName', b.name as 'TableName',
stats_date (id,indid) as stats_last_updated_time
from sys.sysindexes as a
inner join sys.objects as b
on a.id = b.object_id
where b.type = 'U'

Note: Rowmodctr values displayed above are not entirely reliable starting with SQL 2005 onwards. But, you can rely on last updated time to make a decision if the statistics need to be updated.
Read here for more

Many of you might have lot of tables or have large databases where you only want to update statistics using ‘UPDATE STATISTICS’ or ‘sp_updatestats’, but only for those tables that have large row modifications. Here is a script that you can use to get the output of each index that has significant row modifications. You can pipe this to a temp table and choose to update statistics on only these tables. You can do this by looking at the “ModifiedPercent” column.

select
schemas.name as table_schema,
tbls.name as table_name,
i.name as index_name,
i.id as table_id,
i.indid as index_id,
i.rowmodctr as modifiedRows,
(select max(rowcnt) from sysindexes i2 where i.id = i2.id and i2.indid < 2) as rowcnt,
convert(DECIMAL(18,8), convert(DECIMAL(18,8),i.rowmodctr) / convert(DECIMAL(18,8),(select max(rowcnt) from sysindexes i2 where i.id = i2.id and i2.indid < 2))) as ModifiedPercent,
stats_date( i.id, i.indid ) as lastStatsUpdate
from sysindexes i
inner join sysobjects tbls on i.id = tbls.id
inner join sysusers schemas on tbls.uid = schemas.uid
inner join information_schema.tables tl
on tbls.name = tl.table_name
and schemas.name = tl.table_schema
and tl.table_type='BASE TABLE'
where 0 < i.indid and i.indid < 255
and table_schema <> 'sys'
and i.rowmodctr <> 0
and i.status not in (8388704,8388672)
and (select max(rowcnt) from sysindexes i2 where i.id = i2.id and i2.indid < 2) > 0

— For SQL 2000

SELECT 'Index Name' = i.name, 'Table Name' = o.name,
'Statistics Date' = STATS_DATE(i.id, i.indid)
FROM sysobjects o, sysindexes i
where o.id = i.id

You can put this in a cursor for every database if you want to and play around with it. Will post back another script which will help you decide what criteria you want to pick when updating indexes. Stay tuned….

Addition: February 4, 2012: An updated version of the script is available here.