PowerSQL – SQL Inventory Generation – Email – High Level Details
Inventory allows anyone to quickly and easily assess any environment. For few servers, answering Inventory questions might not be so...
2013-05-09
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PowerSQL By Prashanth Jayaram
PowerSQL – Identify a Head of the Database Blocks and Generate Automated Alert across all listed SQL Instances
This is going to be a simplest way of capturing and sending some useful information via an email of ‘N’...
2013-05-06
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PowerSQL - List SQL Server instance configuration details and sending an automated email
Reblogged from Prashanth Jayaram :
This article walks through how to list SQL Server configurable and non-configurable instance settings using PowerShell...
2013-05-01
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PowerSQL – Find Size, Name, LastAccess and Last Modified time of all bak files across ALL Servers.
We came across a scenario where database bak files being created from long time which are no more in use...
2013-04-30
1,113 reads
PowerSQL -Recycle SQL Instance (Remote or Local)
We have a scheduled maintenance window to recycle SQL SERVER Instance once in 30 days hence created a PowerShell job where...
2013-04-29
1,403 reads
PowerSQL – Generate Only Index Script of All Tables or Specific Tables
Background of this implementation-As a part of Performance tuning, We noticed huge avg_disk_queue_length on F drive after analysis, we’ve recommended to...
2013-04-24
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PowerSQL – Database Backup Report across all Servers – Centralized Approach
This topic provides and describes the quickest way to find when and what databases are being backed up recently.Backups are...
2013-04-23
1,069 reads
PowerShell – Get an UNC of a remote folder
To Read/Write/Rename/Copy/Delete a file configured across ‘N’ of servers in the same path, this script is going to be very...
2013-04-22
1,416 reads
SQL – Table data – HTML Format & Email Sending using T-SQL
1) Configure DBMail - In this case the ‘TEST’ profile being created for the demo
2) Create Table – TLOG_Metrics
3) Insert the dumnmy...
2013-04-22
1,657 reads
PowerSQL – Find and Replace string on multiple file of local or remote machine
Copy and Paste the below content in Set-FindandReplaceString.PS1. Please read the instructions carefully. Try to do a dry run on some...
2013-04-17
713 reads
Blogs
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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