Friday 31 October 2014

Pad leading Zero's in SQL

This example would pad a 3 character string with a leading zero:

SELECT RIGHT('000'+ISNULL(field,''),3)

NULL values will show as 000

If you have an Integar Value that you want to add leading zero's then:

 
SELECT RIGHT('000'+CAST(field AS VARCHAR(3)),3)

Find Duplicate Fields in a table

select field1,field2,field3, count(*)
  from table_name
  group by field1,field2,field3
  having count(*) > 1

Wednesday 30 July 2014

Create SQL Server Agent Alerts

There are a number of different resources about this. Brent Ozar is usually my first Port of Call for anything SQL Related.

http://www.brentozar.com/blitz/configure-sql-server-alerts/

and this is also quite a useful link that explains what some of the error codes mean by Robyn Page and another SQL guru:

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/sql-server-alerts-soup-to-nuts/

Below is the SQL Script for Setting up alerts with severity 16-25 and SQL Server Alerts 823-825 and 832. I added the 832 alert to the script, but the main body of the script is from Brent Ozar at the first link above. When you run the script you need to do a Find and Replace on 'DBA Team' and substitute it for whichever SQL Server Agent Operator that have configured and want to be notified.



USE [msdb]
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 016',
@message_id=0,
@severity=16,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 016', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 017',
@message_id=0,
@severity=17,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 017', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 018',
@message_id=0,
@severity=18,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 018', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 019',
@message_id=0,
@severity=19,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 019', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 020',
@message_id=0,
@severity=20,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 020', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 021',
@message_id=0,
@severity=21,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 021', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 022',
@message_id=0,
@severity=22,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 022', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 023',
@message_id=0,
@severity=23,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 023', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 024',
@message_id=0,
@severity=24,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 024', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Severity 025',
@message_id=0,
@severity=25,
@enabled=1,
@delay_between_responses=60,
@include_event_description_in=1,
@job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000';
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Severity 025', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Error Number 823',
@message_id=823,
 @severity=0,
 @enabled=1,
 @delay_between_responses=60,
 @include_event_description_in=1,
 @job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Error Number 823', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Error Number 824',
 @message_id=824,
 @severity=0,
 @enabled=1,
 @delay_between_responses=60,
 @include_event_description_in=1,
 @job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Error Number 824', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Error Number 825',
 @message_id=825,
 @severity=0,
 @enabled=1,
 @delay_between_responses=60,
 @include_event_description_in=1,
 @job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Error Number 825', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_alert @name=N'Error Number 832',
 @message_id=832,
 @severity=0,
 @enabled=1,
 @delay_between_responses=60,
 @include_event_description_in=1,
 @job_id=N'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'
GO
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_add_notification @alert_name=N'Error Number 832', @operator_name=N'DBA Team', @notification_method = 7;
GO


Tuesday 8 April 2014

Update Out Of Date SQL Server Statistics Query

--The following script updates all out of date statistics.
--Set the @MaxDaysOld variable to the number of days you will allow the
--statistics to be out of date by. Setting the @SamplePercent variable to null
--will use the SQL Server default value of 20,000 rows. You can also change
--the sample type to specify rows or percent.
--Taken from http://sqlserverplanet.com/dba/update-statistics


DECLARE @MaxDaysOld INT
DECLARE @SamplePercent INT
DECLARE @SampleType nvarchar(50)

SET @MaxDaysOld = 10
SET @SamplePercent = 25 --25
SET @SampleType = 'PERCENT' --'ROWS'

BEGIN TRY
DROP TABLE #OldStats
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH SELECT 1 END CATCH

SELECT
RowNum = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ISNULL(STATS_DATE(object_id, st.stats_id),1))
,TableName = OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(st.object_id) + '.' + OBJECT_NAME(st.object_id)
,StatName = st.name
,StatDate = ISNULL(STATS_DATE(object_id, st.stats_id),1)
INTO #OldStats
FROM sys.stats st WITH (nolock)
WHERE DATEDIFF(DAY, ISNULL(STATS_DATE(object_id, st.stats_id),1), GETDATE()) > @MaxDaysOld
ORDER BY ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ISNULL(STATS_DATE(object_id, st.stats_id),1))

DECLARE @MaxRecord INT
DECLARE @CurrentRecord INT
DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(255)
DECLARE @StatName nvarchar(255)
DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(MAX)
DECLARE @SampleSize nvarchar(100)

SET @MaxRecord = (SELECT MAX(RowNum) FROM #OldStats)
SET @CurrentRecord = 1
SET @SQL = ''
SET @SampleSize = ISNULL(' WITH SAMPLE ' + CAST(@SamplePercent AS nvarchar(20)) + ' ' + @SampleType,N'')

WHILE @CurrentRecord <= @MaxRecord
BEGIN

SELECT
@TableName = os.TableName
,@StatName = os.StatName
FROM #OldStats os
WHERE RowNum = @CurrentRecord

SET @SQL = N'UPDATE STATISTICS ' + @TableName + ' [' + @StatName + ']' + @SampleSize + ';'

PRINT @SQL

EXEC sp_executesql @SQL

SET @CurrentRecord = @CurrentRecord + 1

END

-- Clears the procedure cache for the entire server
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE;

-- Update all usage in the database
DBCC UPDATEUSAGE (0);