A Script A Day - Day 15 - Untrusted Check Constraints
Today’s script comes about because of a recent discussion about check constraints. The discussion was about the use of WITH...
2012-02-22
1,020 reads
Chris McGowan
A Script A Day - Day 16 - Database Restore
Today’s script is one I have used more times that I care to remember. As a DBA database backups and...
2012-02-22
676 reads
A Script A Day - Day 13 - Chris' Top Tip - Batches
Today’s post is pretty cool. So you have been reading up about something on the World Wide Web or you...
2012-02-21
462 reads
A Script A Day - Day 14 - Upgrading to SQL 2012
Today’s script is one I have used to test one possible upgrade method from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server...
2012-02-21
971 reads
A Script A Day - Day 11 - User Permissions By Database
Today's script will return you permissions granted to a user for every online database. The script uses EXECUTE AS so...
2012-02-20
1,092 reads
A Script A Day - Day 12 - Granting Role Membership to All Principals
Today's script will grant membership in the db_owner fixed database role in all online read/writable user databases to all principals not...
2012-02-20
896 reads
Sorry...
I've been offline for a week to take some annual leave and recharge my batteries. To make up for the...
2012-02-20
462 reads
A Script A Day - Day 10 - Hosts on vCentre
If you use VMWare for your virtualisation environment all virtual machines are managed by one or more vCentre management servers. ...
2012-02-10
703 reads
A Script A Day - Day 9 - Index Compression Estimations
Today's script provides amongst other information Index compression estimates based on existing index information. All you need to do is...
2012-02-09
1,308 reads
A Script A Day - Day 8 - Non Clustered Index Information
Today's script comes to you from London where I am at my head office for my appraisal! Lets hope it...
2012-02-08
445 reads
Blogs
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
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In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Leadership in Times of Change: Guiding Teams Through Uncertainty, Disruption, and Transformation
By Chris Yates
Change is inevitable. What separates thriving organizations from those that falter is not the...
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how to write this query?
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Powershell script to generate SQL server Inventory in CSV format
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Azure SQL Database MAXDOP
When Azure SQL Database was originally released, the MAXDOP was set to 0 for each new database. In Oct 2025, what is the default value for Azure SQL databases?
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