CREATE LOGIN of windows user and GRANT SYSADMIN Access

Using below command you can create a windows login and grant SysAdmin access. Replace DOMAIN\LOGIN with windows login name 

USE [master]

GO

CREATE LOGIN [DOMAIN\LOGIN] FROM WINDOWS WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master]

GO

EXEC master..sp_addsrvrolemember @loginame = N'DOMAIN\LOGIN', @rolename = N'sysadmin'

GO

--

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Venkat Sangu

How to check machine is physical for virtual server

This is used when doing audit to identify the server is Physical or virtual

There are many ways to find the machine type either Physical or Virtual 

Using GUI open the System information by typing msinfo32.exe in run command

Result Shown as below and for Physical servers

Result Shown as below and for Virtual servers

for Virtual  Machines "System Manufacturer" and "System Model", the screenshot displays "VMware Inc. " &  "VMware virtual platform"

From Command prompt also you can find by typing systeminfo in CMD

Also by using below dos command you can find 

systeminfo /s %computername% | findstr /c:"Model:" /c:"Host Name" /c:"OS Name"

Below are the two screens shots of Physical & Virtual Machine results

Physical Box:

Virtual Box:

How to remove Orphaned subscription

How to remove Orphaned subscription

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

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Could not delete the subscription at Subscriber 'S608161RGSW14' in database 'TransactorMI'. The subscription record does not exist at Subscriber.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=10.50.1600.1&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ObjectExplorer.Replication.ReplicationMenuItem&EvtID=CantDeleteSubscriptionAtSubscriber&LinkId=20476

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

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Could not delete the subscription at Subscriber 'S608161RGSW14' in database 'TransactorMI'.

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=10.50.1600.1&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ObjectExplorer.Replication.ReplicationMenuItem&EvtID=CantDeleteSubscriptionAt&LinkId=20476

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

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'S608161RGSW14' is not defined as a Subscriber for 'AJGECOMVDBP235\GTI'.

Could not update the distribution database subscription table. The subscription status could not be changed.

Changed database context to 'Transactor'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 20032)

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=10.50.4000&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=20032&LinkId=20476

Using below script you can drop the sucbscription  you need tun below script in publication server 

In below script 
MYTran is the publication database 
MYTranGTI_MY_PUB is publication name 
MYTranMI is the subscriber database name 

USE  MYTran

GO

DECLARE @publication AS sysname;

DECLARE @subscriber AS sysname;

--enter your publication name

SET @publication = N'MYTranGTI_MY_PUB';

--enter subscriber name

SET @subscriber = N'MYTranMI';

USE MYTran

EXEC sp_dropsubscription

@publication = @publication,

@article = N'all',

@subscriber = @subscriber

,@ignore_distributor=1;

GO

Using below script you can drop the publication you need tun below script in publication server 

MYTran is the publication database 

MYTranGTI_MY_PUB is publication name 

USE MYTran
Go

DECLARE @publicationDB AS sysname;

DECLARE @publication AS sysname;

--set your publication database here

SET @publicationDB = N'MYTran';

SET @publication = N'MYTranGTI_MY_PUB';

EXEC sp_droppublication

@publication = @publication

,@ignore_distributor=1;

-- Remove replication objects from the database.

USE [master]

EXEC sp_replicationdboption

@dbname = @publicationDB,

@optname = N'publish',

@value = N'false';

GO

See Also

Remove SQL Replication in Publisher and Subscriber after changing server names

Table Space used and row count

Using below query you can find out the table space in a database and rows count of the table. 

Please change/add your tables list in WHERE condition  

SELECT T.NAME AS TableName, P.rows AS RowCounts, SUM(a.total_pages) * 8 AS TotalSpaceKB,  SUM(a.used_pages) * 8 AS UsedSpaceKB, (SUM(a.total_pages) - SUM(a.used_pages)) * 8 AS UnusedSpaceKB 

 FROM  sys.tables T

 INNER JOIN      

    sys.indexes I ON t.OBJECT_ID = i.object_id

 INNER JOIN 

    sys.partitions P ON i.object_id = p.OBJECT_ID AND i.index_id = p.index_id

 INNER JOIN 

    sys.allocation_units A ON p.partition_id = a.container_id

 LEFT OUTER JOIN 

    sys.schemas S ON t.schema_id = s.schema_id

 WHERE 

    T.NAME in ('Table1','Table2','Table3','Table4') 

    AND T.is_ms_shipped = 0

    AND I.OBJECT_ID > 255 

 GROUP BY 

    T.Name, S.Name, P.Rows

 ORDER BY 

    T.Name

 you can find using SSMS as shown in below. Right click on the database and click on the Reports --> select Standard Reports --> and select Disk Usage by Table. 

and results shown like below