Find all indexes on a table
It is useful to be able to see all indexes on a table. There is the shipped stored procedure sp_helpindex but the following query can reveal some more inforamtion such as the Included and Filter columns.
Category MSSQL
All the log info you need in MS SQL Server
The batch below will reveal all the information you want for the log files of the databases in current instance. Recovery model, location, size, used log, disk available on log file disk, last log backup, log size since last log…
Databases size
The following statement returns the size of all databases in current SQL Server instance in Megabytes. Information is separated in data and log information.
Non Clustered Primary Keys in current database
Creating a Primary Key in SQL Server, by default creates a Clustered Index. The following statement shows all Primary Keys in current database that are using nonclustered indexes instead of clustered. This might not be necessarily wrong, as a clustered…
Memory Allocation in SQL Server
xp_readerrorlog
Batch Requests / second
DECLARE @BRPS BIGINTSELECT @BRPS=cntr_valueFROM sys.dm_os_performance_countersWHERE counter_name LIKE ‘Batch Requests/sec%’WAITFOR DELAY ‘000:00:01’SELECT (cntr_value-@BRPS) AS “Batch Requests/sec”FROM sys.dm_os_performance_countersWHERE counter_name LIKE ‘Batch Requests/sec%’
Resolve the blocking tree in multi-blocking situation
The situation where one or more session are blocking one or more sessions each, and the blocked ones block some other session(s) themselves is something that can occur.
Check if any long operation is running (Backup/Restore/DBCC CHECKDB)
You can check the progress of your Backup/Restore/CheckDB with the following statement
Check for suspect pages
SQL Servers keeps record of the corrupted pages it accesses in msdb table dbo.suspect_pages. Note that table only holds 1000 rows. Then again you should not find any records in it whenever querying it!