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Automatically Sets Default on Columns

If you set up a default on a column AFTER data has been entered, then this procedure will apply    the default to all NULL values within that column. Limitations:     It only works with numeric values right now.You will also need the INSTR function, which you can also get from this site.This is my first […]

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2004-10-13 (first published: )

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check rerun status of failed/cancelled jobs

There are times when you have mulitple job failures and need to find out in a quick way which jobs/steps failed and what their rerun statuses are.  This script creates a stored procedure in the msdb db to help you find out the statuses of these jobs.

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2004-10-12 (first published: )

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Count elapsed business days between two dates

This is a UDF that counts the days between two dates ignoring weekends and corporate holidays (as supplied in a lookup table). This ignores the time component but could be adjusted should you need to. If both days are on the same work day then the elapsed days is considered 1. If started Monday and […]

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2004-09-30

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Transaction Log Truncation

In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?

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