sp_what
Better* than sp_who2, with less re-checking data to get answers. Also, it is SnaZy. With a capital Z.
*Dont you just love totally non subjective assessments like this?
2018-11-01 (first published: 2018-10-22)
3,057 reads
Nicholas Williams
Email SP Results
Will take a stored procedure and email the results in a dynamically generated embedded HTML table or as an attachment.
2016-12-05 (first published: 2015-05-29)
2,854 reads
DB Integrity & Backup Report
This script returns the date for the most recent log/full backups and checks if a DBCC CHECKDB has ran within a week.
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-06-23)
1,343 reads
Recent Restore History
This script simply returns the most recent restore information about databases for a server.
Returns the destination database name, the device used to perform the restore and the restore date.
2015-07-15 (first published: 2015-06-10)
771 reads
2013-12-06 (first published: 2011-01-31)
4,835 reads
Database Growth History
This script uses the backup tables to get info on the growth of your database files.
2013-05-07 (first published: 2009-02-03)
15,249 reads
Blogs
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
Forums
Training the next generation
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Training the next generation
Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering Logic with CROSS APPLY and an Inline TVF (Part 4)
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Reusing Customer Specific Order Filtering...
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Comments posted to this topic are about the item PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Databases
Which of the following meta commands (sometimes called backslash or slash commands) within psql will provide you with information about the databases on the cluster?
See possible answers