Verify Login SID and Machine SID
This script is to verify which login accounts have SID values that don’t match the correct SID values defined on the machine or in the domain.
2015-01-12 (first published: 2014-12-24)
1,642 reads
SQl Hunt
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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.
2015-01-08 (first published: 2014-12-26)
1,518 reads
PowerShell Query to remove backup folders against multiple servers
Remove backup folders from multiple servers.
2014-12-23 (first published: 2014-12-09)
622 reads
2014-12-04
1,499 reads
2014-11-18
1,521 reads
Extract SQL Server Key details
Extract SQL Server Name, Instance Name, Service Account details, startMode and ServiceState details with Powershell.
2014-10-27 (first published: 2014-10-13)
6,125 reads
2014-09-18
1,934 reads
Simple script to list out SPID, Program_name and login details
If you have any requirement where you want to find out all the SPIDs running on a database along with the program/application name of the SPID and the login details. You can run the procedure to get the details very easily.
2014-08-12 (first published: 2014-06-30)
4,118 reads
2013-06-20
2,412 reads
Backup Database Size calculation Report - Monthwise
The script helps to calculate the size of the backup of the databases monthwise. This will help to understand the database growth rate from the backup file if we do not have any data collection utility to find the exact details of the DATA File growth.
2012-09-24 (first published: 2012-08-20)
1,631 reads
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers