2025-12-29 (first published: 2025-12-25)
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Scripts
Database security permissions save script
This script will save your database permissions into a table.
2025-12-29
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Powershell script to generate SQL server Inventory in CSV format
This script is used to generate the output file as CSV format for list of server.
2025-11-03 (first published: 2025-10-20)
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AlwaysON health check alerts
The script gets the database health check whether synchronized or not from the primary or secondary. This code needs to scheduled through as a job to get alerts.
2025-10-20 (first published: 2025-10-13)
542 reads
Bat and SQL script to generate DB user permissions for all Databases in SQL server
Get a list of all user permissions in a database
2025-10-15 (first published: 2025-10-13)
1,969 reads
Database File Growth Report Script
A T-SQL script to track and monitor the growth of your SQL Server Databases.
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-09-04)
715 reads
Index Efficiency & Maintenance Advisor
This script will help DBAs to find inefficient indexes and duplicate indexes, by providing the following metrics: usage statistics, fragmentation levels, size, and index duplication analysis.
2025-09-10 (first published: 2025-06-27)
679 reads
Enables Change Data Capture (CDC) on all user databases
This script loops through all user databases, skips system DBs and any you want to exclude, and enables CDC if it’s not already enabled.
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-25)
636 reads
Free T-SQL Script: Database Schema Documentation Generator for Generative AI Services Integration
This script automatically generates comprehensive schema documentation that can be easily consumed by AI services for natural language querying, automated report generation, and intelligent data analysis.
2025-09-03 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,051 reads
Fetch fields like email address from multiple records into single cell
COALESCE smartly helps to concatenating the multiple rows value into one cell.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-25)
1,532 reads
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Restoring On Top II
I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers