Report overlapping jobs
This script reports jobs which are running when another job is also running. This could be a reason for performance degradations.
2016-07-29 (first published: 2014-06-21)
2,664 reads
Wilfred van Dijk
2015-09-30 (first published: 2015-09-17)
1,776 reads
2015-02-12 (first published: 2010-03-12)
4,953 reads
All OS version info in one function
Always wanted to know the OS details? This function tells you everything (MSSQL 2008R2 and newer version only)
2014-12-29 (first published: 2014-12-06)
1,538 reads
move tempdb
For maximum performance, tempdb should be placed on a seperate disk. This script does all the work for you, except the restart!
2014-10-13 (first published: 2014-09-09)
1,504 reads
Unique Identifier as Clustered index
This script selects clustered indexes containing only a uniqueidentifier column
2013-10-17 (first published: 2013-10-02)
1,223 reads
usp_addcolumns
This is a stored procedure to add a columns to multiple tables, if column doesn't exist
2013-07-09 (first published: 2008-05-27)
969 reads
All SQL Version info in one function
This function returns all the necessary version information in a table.
2012-05-28 (first published: 2012-03-21)
3,165 reads
Convert seconds to a timestring
This script converts a number of seconds (integer) to a time string, format 'hh:mm:ss'
2010-05-05 (first published: 2010-04-28)
1,446 reads
Check status of HEAP tables
This SP reports the status of your heap tables. It gives you an overview of fragmentation, ghost record counts and forwarded record counts. Another reason to create a clustered index!
2010-04-09 (first published: 2010-03-09)
2,174 reads
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BCP on Linux
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