Gather Always On Configuration using a DMV query
If you were like me, you would know your AG configuration by heart. However, what if you get busy with...
2018-04-26
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How to find out whether your database is transactional, analytical or hybrid?
If you are a DBA, especially Infrastructure DBA, Production DBA or Operations DBA then you don't necessarily always know what...
2018-04-26
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Get SQL server database size, location and volume info using DMVs
SELECT * FROM sys.master_files AS f
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_os_volume_stats(f.database_id, f.file_id) v;
2018-04-23
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2018-04-20
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
312 reads
T-SQL Developer Interview Questions with Answers
What SQL command do you use to pull and filter data from a table ?
SELECT [Column List] FROM [Table Name]...
2018-04-20
426 reads
Generate SQL script to extract user permissions from a SQL database
When you restore a database, it will also restore all permissions along with it. But what if you are restoring...
2018-04-19
11,988 reads
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...
2018-04-19
7,000 reads
How to start SQL Server job using TSQL and wait for it to complete?
If you ever had a need to start a SQL job using sp_start_job stored procedure in msdb then you know...
2018-04-19
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
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We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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Remotely Engineer Fabric Lakehouse objects: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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Creating JSON III
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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