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Gather last 10 Error & critical events from all Windows Event Logs

sethusrinivasan — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:50:47 +0000

Windows PowerShell 3.0 cmdlet:
get-winevent -FilterXPath “*[System[(Level=1 or Level=2)]]” -MaxEvents 10

Complete SSMS is available for free in SQL 2012 SP1

sethusrinivasan — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:57:10 +0000

In SQL 2012 SP1, Full SSMS is available as a free download.

You can download SSMS (SQL 2012 SP1) from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29062

Backup all databases using Backup-SqlDatabase cmdlet

sethusrinivasan — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:04:08 +0000

Launch SSMS

Right click on databases node,

Select Menu item “Start PowerShell”

Type in following command to backup all databases to Default backup folder

dir | Backup-SqlDatabase

Databases are backed up to Default backup folder

DMV – Windows Operating System version information

sethusrinivasan — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:58:31 +0000

You can use the DMV on SQL 2008 R2 and above to query Windows OS information

SELECT * FROM sys.dm_os_windows_info

References:

MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh204565.aspx

Set autoclose property for all database

sethusrinivasan — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:19:10 +0000

in SSMS , Right click on database node in Object Explorer, Select menu item “Start PowerShell”

Type in following in power shell window to set Auto Close on all databases

dir | foreach {$_.AutoClose = $true; $_.Alter()}

If you would prefer to set on specific database that starts with name “DB”

dir | where-object {$_.Name.StartsWith("DB")} | foreach {$_.AutoClose = $true; $_.Alter()}

Multi-server results options to merge results

sethusrinivasan — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:33:12 +0000

You could set the Multi Server results Options Merge Results = “False” and rerun the same query. Now you will see multiple result sets. This could help you isolate the issue why the result schema returned by specific server is not the same as other result sets. ( Related forum thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlkjappmsmgmt/thread/c4cda4bc-7b4d-4367-99a9-3268d8196feb/ )

in SSMS -> Tools -> Options

Query results

-> SQL Server

———> Multi Server Results
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Capturing session level options settings on all sessions in SQL 2012 using XEvents

sethusrinivasan — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:52:40 +0000

You could use XEvents to capture options set at all existing sessions & any future new sessions. Here is sample session definition. (I have tested it on SQL 2012 SP1). Please replace the file path in the following script to a valid file path on your machine where SQL Server service account has read, write privileges to create and write to XEvent file.

T-SQL

———

CREATE EVENT SESSION [set_options] ON SERVER 
ADD EVENT sqlserver.existing_connection(SET collect_database_name=(1),collect_options_text=(1)) 
ADD TARGET package0.event_file(SET filename=N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\set_options.xel')
WITH (MAX_MEMORY=4096 KB,
EVENT_RETENTION_MODE=ALLOW_SINGLE_EVENT_LOSS,
MAX_DISPATCH_LATENCY=30 SECONDS,
MAX_EVENT_SIZE=0 KB,
MEMORY_PARTITION_MODE=NONE,
TRACK_CAUSALITY=OFF,
STARTUP_STATE=OFF)
GO
ALTER EVENT SESSION [set_options] ON SERVER STATE=START

Scripting database using Smo.Scripter

sethusrinivasan — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:51:08 +0000

You can automate script generation using SMO and power shell using the following power shell script. Script generated would be similar to the script generated using “Generate Script Wizard” in ssms

You can download script from here

This posting is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm

How to specify DB name in CMS Query

sethusrinivasan — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:19:06 +0000

You can set the database name for the registered server in the “Connection Properties” tab. Then open a “New Query” on the server group and run your query

2012 in review

sethusrinivasan — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:21:17 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 16 years to get that many views.

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