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Get ALL table and column descriptions in MSSQL

Rich Kreider — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:01:54 +0000

Get MS_Description from all tables AND columns in a database. Suh-weet.

SELECT          u.name + '.' + t.name AS [table],
            td.value AS [table_desc],
                c.name AS [column],
                cd.value AS [column_desc]
FROM            sysobjects t
INNER JOIN  sysusers u
    ON          u.uid = t.uid
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.extended_properties td
    ON          td.major_id = t.id
    AND         td.minor_id = 0
    AND         td.name = 'MS_Description'
INNER JOIN  syscolumns c
    ON          c.id = t.id
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.extended_properties cd
    ON          cd.major_id = c.id
    AND         cd.minor_id = c.colid
    AND         cd.name = 'MS_Description'
WHERE t.type = 'u'
--ORDER BY    t.name, c.colorder
ORDER BY [table], [column] ASC -- for my own use

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/887414

Outlook Signature and Stationery Folder in Windows 7

Rich Kreider — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:25:34 +0000

I always forget but I usually end up starting in the right place hunting down the signature local store on my computer for Outlook.

Start -> %appdata%

Navigate to Microsoft\Signatures or Microsoft\Stationary

Full path: C:\Users\rkreider\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures

wmic output hangs when using psexec

Rich Kreider — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:33:52 +0000

I recently found when trying to issue a wmic query on a remote system with psexec (1.98) it would hang and not display results. The solution is to redirect STDIN to NUL. psexec \\computer cmd /c "wmic path win32_usbcontroller < … Continue reading →

MSDN Bug Check Code Reference

Rich Kreider — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:49:34 +0000

Bug Check Code Reference from MSDN

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh406232(v=vs.85).aspx

Great site with lots of collected information from an MVP

http://www.carrona.org/bsodindx.html

I once had a complete listing with search capability (http://www.techish.net/bugcodes/) but I no longer have this. I will soon recreate it.

Visualizing SQLIO: Disk benchmark results using a PivotChart

Rich Kreider — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:43:31 +0000

This is a quick video of what I was working on for a little today. I created a batch script that will benchmark a disk(s) using SQLIO and record the output to a single file (or multiple, if necessary). After benchmarking completes, I run SQLIOResults and choose the output file that was created by my batch script.

Once SQLIOResults parses the SQLIO output and finishes inserting it into Excel, I create a PivotChart to compare the disk(s) IOPS and MB/s at each of the different test levels.

Hopefully someone else will find this useful. Also, if anyone knows how I can create a pivot chart in Powershell (if there’s a COM call), please let me know so I can completely automate this!