Azure-Sql-Db

While it’s not 100% required, your life is generally better if your databases are set to the maximum database compatibility level that your server supports. But it’s a bit of a pain to actually make that change. So in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have a procedure that does just that. It’s called SetDatabaseCompabilityForAllDatabasesToMaximum.

It’s a stored procedure and takes no parameters at all.

It checks all the user databases and sets them to the maximum level allowed by the server that they are attached to. It is applicable to SQL Server only. (This procedure doesn’t exist in the Azure SQL Database version of the tools).

2020-02-19

It’s common to need to get a table of all dates between two dates, and in our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have a function DatesBetween that I’ve previously talked about. But sometimes it’s not a start and end date that you have, it’s a start date and a number of intervals. For example, I might want all the dates for the next three months, or three weeks, or two years. To make that easy, we’ve added a function called DatesInPeriod.

2020-02-12

I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that we recently shipped version 18 of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs.

We’ve had so many requests for a version of SDU Tools that will work with Azure SQL Database. So, in version 18.0, we added that support.

So what’s changed?

We’ve added two new scripts included in the download: one for adding the tools to Azure SQL DB and one for removing them.

2020-02-05

As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have many scripting functions. SQL Server allows you to create your own database roles, and generally, you should do this instead of using the fixed database roles like db_owner, or db_datareader and db_datawriter, as it lets you allocate just the required permissions. To allow scripting these out, we’ve added a tool called ScriptUserDefinedDatabaseRoles.

It’s a stored procedure (as it has to change databases) and takes a single parameter: @DatabaseName (sysname) as the name of the database whose roles you want to script.

2020-01-29

As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have a function that generates dimension columns for individual time periods. To make that easy to use across a range of times in day, we’ve added a function called TimePeriodsBetween.

It’s a table-valued function that takes three parameters:

@StartTime time is the first time to return @EndTime is the last time to be returned @MinutesPerPeriod is the number of minutes in each time period for the day (e.g. it’s 15 for every quarter of an hour)

2020-01-22

As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have many scripting functions. Moving or recreating object-level permissions between SQL Server databases can be time consuming.  To allow scripting these out, we’ve added a tool called ScriptDatabaseObjectPermissions.

It’s a stored procedure (as it has to change databases) and takes a single parameter: @DatabaseName (sysname) as the name of the database whose object permissions you want to script.

2020-01-15

Version 17 of our SDU Tools shipped out to all our SDU Insiders a few days ago.

It contains the following updates:

DatesInPeriod - Produces a table of dates from a starting date, for a number of intervals. For example, 3 weeks of dates from a starting date.

ServerMaximumDBCompatibilityLevel - Returns the maximum database compatibility level supported by the server.

SetDatabaseCompabilityForAllDatabasesToMaximum​ - Sets the database compatibility level of all databases to the maximum value supported by the server.

2020-01-08

As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have many scripting functions. SQL Server allows you to create your own database roles, and generally, you should do this instead of using the fixed database roles like db_owner, or db_datareader and db_datawriter, as it lets you allocate just the required permissions. To allow scripting out the permissions assigned to these roles, we’ve added a tool called ScriptUserDefinedDatabaseRolePermissions.

2020-01-01

As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have many scripting functions. SQL Server allows you to create your own server roles, and generally, you should do this instead of using the fixed server roles, as it lets you allocate just the required permissions. To allow scripting the permissions that have been assigned to the roles, we’ve added a tool called ScriptUserDefinedServerRolePermissions.

It’s a function and doesn’t require any parameters.

2019-12-18

As part of our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, we have many scripting functions. SQL Server allows you to create your own server roles, and generally, you should do this instead of using the fixed server roles, as it lets you allocate just the required permissions. To allow scripting these out, we’ve added a tool called ScriptUserDefinedServerRoles.

It’s a function and doesn’t require any parameters.

You can use our tools as a set or as a great example of how to write functions like these.

2019-12-11