Compression estimates
The script estimate compression benefits per each object in the database for which the page compression has not been implemented.
2018-02-15 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-24)
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2018-01-26 (first published: 2018-01-18)
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Compare MS SQL Agent jobs on two servers
During a database migration or a side by side database upgrade project we need to migrate the MS SQL Server Agent jobs. This script compare jobs by names and shows unmatched jobs.
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-20)
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Database maintenance progress
Often we need to know on which stage is a maintenance operation such as: backup, restore, check database. You can get this information using my script.
2018-01-17 (first published: 2018-01-12)
617 reads
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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