We’re currently busy reviewing some of the historical database design decisions taken in our organisation. We’ve noticed quite a lot of columns, that are specified as nullable, but do not actually contain any nulls. Obviously this fact makes the column a possible candidate for changing to NOT NULL. I wanted to make this task a [...]

In order to automate testing of backups it’s useful to be able to query backup files to access various bits of meta-data. We can do this with the RESTORE FILELISTONLY TSQL command. In the simplest format the command is as follows; ?View Code TSQLRESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK = ‘c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Backup\AdventureWorks_20110320.bak’; This doesn’t help [...]

I was Googling around the other day for a bit of TSQL to quickly grant a user permission to use all procedures and functions and came across the following post. We have a few table -valued functions in our system so this script buckled with the following error; Msg 4606, Level 16, State 1, Line [...]