Problem
While working with the Results to Text option in SSMS, you may come across a situation where the output from dynamically generated data is truncated. In this article I will guide you on how to fix this issue and print all the text for the Results to Text option.
Tag Archives: SQL Server
Script to find out the database file size, log file size on SQL Server 2000/2005/2008
Recently I encountered a situation where i have to find out the database file size on SQL Server 2000. Here is the script which you can use to run on SQL Server 2000. Below script will on SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 as well.
You can use sys.master_files instead of sysAltfiles in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. Please find all the different scripts below.
--SQL Server 2000 select fileID ,name ,filename ,(size*8)/1024 SizeMB ,((size*8)/1024)/1024 SizeGB ,db_name(dbid) as DBName from sysaltfiles where db_name(dbid) = 'master' --SQL Server 2000 select fileID ,name ,filename ,(size*8)/1024 SizeMB ,((size*8)/1024)/1024 SizeGB ,db_name(dbid) as DBName from sysaltfiles where filename like '%.ldf%' --SQL Server 2005/2008 SELECT DB_NAME(database_id) AS DBName, Name AS LogicalName, Physical_Name, (size*8)/1024 SizeMB Physical_Name, ((size*8)/1024)/1024 SizeGB FROM sys.master_files WHERE DB_NAME(database_id) = 'Master' GO
Different ways to make a table read only in a SQL Server database
Problem
In some cases there may be a need to make a SQL Server table read only. There are several different options for doing this and in this tip we cover various ways that you can make a table read only in a SQL Server database.
Solution
Script to Create Foreign Key on the Compound Primary Key
Compound Primary key is a primary key which is created on more than one column. Now the questions is how to create the foreign key for the compound primary key where it references more than one column.
Check the below example.
create table employee ( empID int not null, SSN int not null, name varchar(20) ) ALTER TABLE [employee] ADD CONSTRAINT pk_employee PRIMARY KEY (empID, SSN) create table EmpDetail ( empID int, SSN int, address varchar(20), city varchar(20), pin varchar(20) ) ALTER TABLE dbo.empDetail ADD CONSTRAINT FK_Employee FOREIGN KEY(empID, SSN) REFERENCES dbo.employee(empID, SSN) SELECT tc.TABLE_NAME, tc.CONSTRAINT_NAME, ccu.COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS tc INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE ccu ON ccu.TABLE_NAME = tc.TABLE_NAME AND ccu.CONSTRAINT_NAME = tc.CONSTRAINT_NAME WHERE tc.TABLE_NAME IN ('employee','employeeDetail')