Easy to use WMI commands to query windows system
WMI has been around for a while and it has grown significantly over the years. With Microsoft's focus on powershell,...
2018-04-20
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SQL query to shrink all log files on sql instance
USE master
exec sp_MSforeachdb '
use [?]
print ''?''
print cast(databasepropertyex(''?'', ''Updateability'') as varchar(200))
if databasepropertyex(''?'', ''Updateability'') = ''READ_WRITE ''
dbcc shrinkfile(2,1)
'
2018-04-20
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T-SQL Developer Interview Questions with Answers
What SQL command do you use to pull and filter data from a table ?
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Generate SQL script to extract user permissions from a SQL database
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How to check whether and when sql index statistics were updated last time?
I was working for a client on their very critical and heavily used database. The application was an E-commerce website...
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How to start SQL Server job using TSQL and wait for it to complete?
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SQL server database size, location and volume info
For one of my clients, I needed to know and document not only database names, size and locations but also...
2018-04-19
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Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
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