2017-02-28 (first published: 2015-06-22)
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2015-08-04 (first published: 2015-07-08)
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Monitor SQL Server and Service
To monitor SQL service and the host server is up and running, if down send e-mail to DBA
2015-07-16 (first published: 2015-06-15)
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PowerShell script to check last backup date for Databases
PowerShell script to check last full backup, transaction log backup date for SQL Server databases.
2014-09-02 (first published: 2014-08-22)
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Powershell script to read Windows 2012 R2 Failover cluster log for Sql
I was having a hard time to reading the Windows 2012 R2 Failover cluster log from my live server. That is why I just wrote a simple PowerShell script to get the job done for me.
2014-08-21 (first published: 2014-07-29)
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Blogs
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers