Get Information on Current Traces Running
This is just a quick informational query to save as a snippet to get some quick information on running traces,...
2014-12-02
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Sheldon Hull
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Eliminate Overlapping Dates
I was looking for an efficient way to eliminate overlapping days when provided with a historical table that provided events...
2014-10-16
939 reads
Generate Random Date With Starting Point
If you want to create sample random samples when dealing with date calculations to test your results, you can easily...
2014-08-12
514 reads
Snippet Alert: Useful dates (eom, bom, etc)
Common date values you may need to reference that you may not want to write from scratch each time.
Hope...
2014-08-12
1,047 reads
Finding Groups - Consecutive Months
A step by step explanation on one way to get a consecutive period of months, which could easily be adapted...
2014-05-19
650 reads
Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man
Ran across a comment the other day that scalar functions prohibit parallelism for a query when included. I thought it...
2014-02-11
850 reads
Renaming all references inside stored procedures and functions can be migraine worthy without a little help…
If you run across migrating or copying a database structure for some purpose, yet need to change the database references...
2013-08-13
1,926 reads
Shortcut to reference examples, syntax, and definitions straight from SSMS
I’ve never really used the F1 key for help files with most applications. I was surprised at the usefulness in...
2013-07-24
860 reads
Check Constraints can help enforce the all or nothing approach when it comes to column updates
If you have a set of columns inside your table that you want to allow nulls in, however if one...
2013-07-18
1,226 reads
SSMS 2012 Extender for the times you want some organization to the random pile of objects gathering in the dusty confines of that database
When dealing with large amounts of objects in a database, navigation can be tedious with SSMS object explorer. This extender...
2013-07-16
735 reads
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Question of the Day
Changing the Recovery Time
I want to change the recovery time for a database running on SQL Server 2022. What are my options for setting the value in my ALTER DATABASE statement. If I run this code, what can I use in place of the xxx to define what 12 means?
ALTER DATABASE Finance SET TARGET_RECOVERY_TIME = 12 xxx;See possible answers