Archive for the ‘SQL Server’ Category

Backup SQL databases to network share

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

To be able to backup databases to a network share, the MSSQLSERVER service needs access to the location on the network. For this you need to change the SQL services service account. Before doing this you'll need to give that user extra permissions, to accomplish this you can add the user to ...

Transfer SQL Server Jobs from SQL Server 2000 to 2005

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

To transfer sql server jobs from sql server 2000 to sql server 2005 you can use SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio. 1. Click file -> new -> project to create a new Integration Services Project 2. Click view -> toolbox so you can see an overview of all the items 3. From ...

Change logical filename of SQL database

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Perform this query to change the logical filename of both the data and logfile of you database. USE MASTER GO ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase MODIFY FILE (NAME = <DBFileName_DATA>, NEWNAME='NewDBFileName_Data') GO ALTER DATABASE MyDatabase MODIFY FILE (NAME = DBFileName_Log, NEWNAME='NewDBFileName_Log') GO

Change schema for all tables in SQL Server 2005

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

By using the stored procedure MSforeachtable it's possible to perform the ALTER SCHEMA sql statement for all tables in a given database. To change the schema for all tables this would look like: exec sp_MSforeachtable "ALTER SCHEMA new_schema TRANSFER ? PRINT '? modified' " Which would look like this if you want to ...