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USE master; alter database DB1_DEV set SINGLE_USER with rollback immediate go ALTER DATABASE DB1_DEV Modify Name = DB1; GO alter database DB1 set MULTI_USER go
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Creating a link between two SQL servers
March 30th, 2011 
Malcolm Chalmers To create a link between two SQL Servers you need to use the sp_addlinkedserver and sp_addlinkedsrvlogin stored procedures. First, sp_addlinkedserver @server=’DBLINK01′,@srvproduct=”,@provider=’SQLOLEDB’,@datasrc=’SQL-HOU-01′; Where, @server is the name of the link @srvproduct is the type of product, by default SQL Server @datasrc is the server you link to Then, you need to set the username and password [...]
Manually adding a mail account to SQL2005/2008
March 30th, 2011 Malcolm Chalmers I was having trouble adding configuring Database Mail on a SQL2005 server today. I followed the wizard just like I had done on the previous 6 servers, but this one just didn’t want to add it. It was giving me an error about not being able to insert a NULL into the server name field, [...]
Simple script to backup all SQL Server databases
March 30th, 2011 Malcolm Chalmers DECLARE @name VARCHAR(50) — database name DECLARE @path VARCHAR(256) — path for backup files DECLARE @fileName VARCHAR(256) — filename for backup DECLARE @fileDate VARCHAR(20) — used for file name SET @path = ‘C:\Backup\’ SELECT @fileDate = CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),GETDATE(),112) DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT name FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases WHERE name NOT IN (‘master’,'model’,'msdb’,'tempdb’) OPEN db_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM [...]
How to list all the databases on a SQL server
March 30th, 2011 Malcolm Chalmers You can list all the databases on a SQL server by running the following query. SQL> select name from sys.sysdatabases
Renaming a SQL Server instance.
February 25th, 2010 Malcolm Chalmers SQL> sp_dropserver ‘oldservername’; SQL> sp_addserver ‘newservername’; don’t run in same batch. the two statements must be executed separately. via sp_addserver Transact-SQL.
