This is one of those topics that will get people fired up. But here goes. I am mostly an explicit temp table developer. By contrast, I am not an implicit temp table developer. What I mean by that is – in writing SQL, you simply cannot avoid the use of tempdb. Either you write to tempdb by breaking queries out and intentionally create temp tables, or you write to tempdb by not breaking queries out (keeping them as long convoluted statements with a long convoluted query plan) and let the optimizer create “worktables”. In either case you are writing to tempdb whether you like it or not. Yet.. the difference is this: Breaking them out: You can control the size of the result set being written to disk You can ensure that the execution plan is simple You can utilize the materialized temp table data throughout the entire procedure Temp tables contain statistics and can be indexed To compare temp table development to CTE development is somewhat of an apples and oranges comparison. A CTE uses nothing special on the back end. It is simply a (potentially) clean way to write a query. The difference is this however. With a CTE, the execution plan of the main query becomes intertwined with the CTE, leaving more room for the optimizer to get confused. By contrast, when a temp table divides two queries, the optimizer is not intertwined with that which created the temp table and the execution plans stay simple and […]
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This procedure will migrate all your stored procedures located on on server to another via linked server. Just specify the linked server name, remote database, and local database. [cc lang=”sql”] CREATE PROCEDURE [dba].[pr_refresh_create_procedures] @linked_server varchar(100), @source_db varchar(100), @target_db varchar(100) AS –EXEC [dba].[pr_refresh_create_procedures] ‘LOCALSERVER’, ‘yourdbname’, ‘targetdb_dev’ SET @source_db = ‘[‘ + @linked_server + ‘].[‘ + @source_db + ‘]’; DECLARE @sql Nvarchar(max) DECLARE @Name varchar(255) = @target_db IF OBJECT_ID(N’admindb.tmp.shelldb_copy_procedures’) IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE admindb.tmp.shelldb_copy_procedures SET @sql = ‘SELECT p.name, m.Definition INTO admindb.tmp.shelldb_copy_procedures FROM ‘ + @source_db + ‘.sys.objects p WITH (NOLOCK) INNER JOIN ‘ + @source_db + ‘.sys.sql_modules m WITH (NOLOCK) ON p.object_id = m.object_id WHERE type IN (”FN”, ”IF”, ”TF”, ”P”, ”V”, ”TT”)’ exec(@sql) DECLARE c CURSOR FOR SELECT Definition FROM admindb.tmp.shelldb_copy_procedures OPEN c FETCH NEXT FROM c INTO @sql WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN SET @sql = REPLACE(@sql,””,”””) set @sql = N’execute ‘ + QUOTENAME(@name) + N’.dbo.sp_executesql N”’ + @sql + ”” EXEC(@sql) FETCH NEXT FROM c INTO @sql END CLOSE c DEALLOCATE c [/cc]
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This script will copy table data from one environment to another. This script uses a multithreaded clr procedure created by Alan Kaplan here. You can also change the parallel call below if you want to execute serially. [cc lang=”sql”] CREATE PROCEDURE [dba].[pr_refresh_insert_table_data] @linked_server varchar(100), @source_db varchar(100), @target_db varchar(100) AS — dba.pr_refresh_insert_table_data ‘10.10.60.58’, ‘yourdbname’, ‘targetdb’ — SELECT * FROM admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(max); DECLARE @SQLColumnList nvarchar(max); DECLARE @SQLSelectColumnList nvarchar(max); DECLARE @CRLF nvarchar(2); DECLARE @Tab nvarchar(1); DECLARE @RecordKeyName nvarchar(50); DECLARE @TableID int; DECLARE @TableCount int; DECLARE @source varchar(max) = ‘[‘ + @linked_server + ‘].[‘ + @source_db + ‘]’ DECLARE @TableName varchar(255); SET @TableName = ”; — Comment out to use list technique below DECLARE @TableList TABLE ( TableID int IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL, TableName varchar(255) ); DECLARE @InsertData Generic_Tt_VarcharMax_5_Col INSERT INTO @TableList(TableName) SELECT DISTINCT table_name FROM admindb.[tmp].[refresh_table_schema_list] tsl WHERE process_data = 1 AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM admindb.tmp.refresh_create_tables WHERE table_name = tsl.table_name) SET @CRLF = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10); SET @Tab = CHAR(9); SET @TableCount = (SELECT COUNT(1) FROM @TableList); SET @TableID = 1; DECLARE @has_identity int SET @TableID = 1; WHILE @TableID
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This script will allow you to specify a linked server name, a remote database on that linked server, and a local database name in which to copy all the tables from on server onto another. [cc lang=”sql”] CREATE PROCEDURE [dba].[pr_refresh_create_tables] @linked_server varchar(100), @source_db varchar(100), @target_db varchar(100), @debug_mode int = 0 AS — dba.pr_refresh_create_tables ‘10.10.60.58’, ‘yourdbname’, ‘targetdb’, 0 — SELECT * FROM admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns BEGIN DECLARE @SQL nvarchar(max); DECLARE @SQLColumnList nvarchar(max); DECLARE @SQLSelectColumnList nvarchar(max); DECLARE @CRLF nvarchar(2); DECLARE @Tab nvarchar(1); DECLARE @RecordKeyName nvarchar(50); DECLARE @RecordKeyDataType nvarchar(50); DECLARE @TableID int; DECLARE @TableCount int; DECLARE @source varchar(max) = ‘[‘ + @linked_server + ‘].[‘ + @source_db + ‘]’ DECLARE @TableName varchar(255); DECLARE @TableList TABLE ( TableID int IDENTITY(1, 1) NOT NULL, TableName varchar(255) ); IF OBJECT_ID(N’admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns_tmp’) IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns_tmp IF OBJECT_ID(N’admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns’) IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns IF OBJECT_ID(N’admindb.tmp.refresh_create_tables’) IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE admindb.tmp.refresh_create_tables CREATE TABLE admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns_tmp ( RowID int NOT NULL, TableName varchar(255), ColumnName varchar(255), IsIdentity bit, DataType varchar(50), IsDataTypeCast bit, IsNullable bit, IsLast bit ); CREATE TABLE admindb.tmp.refresh_create_tables ( ID INT identity(1,1), table_name varchar(255), create_table varchar(max) ) SET NOCOUNT ON; SET @CRLF = CHAR(13) + CHAR(10); SET @Tab = CHAR(9); SET @sql = ‘INSERT INTO admindb.dbo.refresh_table_columns_tmp ( RowID, TableName, ColumnName, IsIdentity, DataType, IsDataTypeCast, IsNullable ) SELECT RowID = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY t.TableName ORDER BY t.IsIdentity DESC, t.ORDINAL_POSITION), TableName, ColumnName, IsIdentity, DataType, IsDataTypeCast, IsNullable FROM ( SELECT DISTINCT TableName = c.TABLE_NAME, ColumnName = c.COLUMN_NAME, IsIdentity = sc.is_identity, DataType = ”” + CASE WHEN LOWER(c.DATA_TYPE) IN (”numeric”, ”decimal”, ”real”) THEN LOWER(c.DATA_TYPE) […]
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This is a useful script if you want to turn a specific list of jobs that are currently enable to a disabled status and vice versa. Just specify the list of job names in the VALUES section below: [cc lang=”sql”] use msdb go IF OBJECT_ID(N’tempdb..#jobs’) IS NOT NULL BEGIN DROP TABLE #jobs END CREATE TABLE #jobs ( job_name nvarchar(max), ) INSERT INTO #jobs(job_name) VALUES (‘Job Name 1 here’), (‘Job Name 2 here’), (‘Run index selection Job’) IF OBJECT_ID(N’tempdb..#job_status’) IS NOT NULL BEGIN DROP TABLE #job_status END SELECT ID = identity(int, 1,1), [job_name], enabled INTO #job_status FROM [msdb].[dbo].[sysjobs] AS [sJOB] JOIN #jobs j ON j.job_name = sJOB.name DECLARE @job_name nvarchar(max) = ”; DECLARE @enabled int; DECLARE @iter int = (SELECT MAX(ID) FROM #job_status); WHILE @iter > 0 BEGIN SET @job_name = ” SELECT @job_name = job_name, @enabled = CASE WHEN [enabled] = 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END FROM #job_status WHERE ID = @iter; EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_name = @job_name, @enabled = @enabled ; PRINT cast(@job_name as varchar) + ‘:’ + cast(@enabled as varchar) SET @iter -= 1; END [/cc]
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