SQL Server Restart or Cluster Failover Notification
How to create an automatic SQL restart or failover notification.
2018-06-22 (first published: 2015-12-10)
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Lori Brown
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Find Permission Changes In The Default Trace
Learn how to find who has changed permissions from the default trace
2015-10-13
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Monitor Database and Log Growth
Most DBA's would like to be notified when automatic database file growth occurs. This script will log file growth. It will not log file shrink but could be easily modifed to do so.Script does the following: 1. create tables to store server list, current & historical file sizes and actual growth for each database file […]
2005-11-29 (first published: 2005-07-21)
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An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers