Extract default & Named Instance from @@servername
Extract default & Named Instance from @@servername.
Print all characters before and after \ to find default and named instance name.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-15)
1,150 reads
SQl Hunt
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Extract SQL Server Key details
Extract SQL Server Name, Instance Name, Service Account details, startMode and ServiceState details with Powershell.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-10-13)
6,119 reads
Extracting only Deadlock details from ErrorLog
If you want to extract only deadlock details, use the script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-03)
3,885 reads
Find no of records in each table in database (against Clustered Index)
If you want to find TotalPages, Usedpages,datapages,totalspaceMB,UsedSpaceMB,DataSpaceMB then can use this query.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-26)
1,510 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-11-22)
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2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-29)
1,771 reads
Getting transaction log space usage statistics for all databases.
Easy way to get the TLOg space Usage details
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-11-19)
1,387 reads
Job Step Log Output file path
If you have a requirement to carefully have the output file against each sql agent job step, you can use this script. If incase, there are many sql agent jobs and by any reason if any of the step does not have proper o/p file, this script can automatically create the o/p file.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,541 reads
Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database
If you have a requirement to Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database, you may use this script
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-08)
2,136 reads
Killing User Connection(session) connected to the Database.
The script will be helpful to kill all the user sessions before performing the refresh of the database.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2011-03-29)
2,653 reads
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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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