Las Vegas February 2013 UG

I know it is right in the middle of TSQL2SDAY when this post is to go live.  If you don’t...

Some Thoughts About Sponsors at SQLSaturday

I think it was because I had just received an email about sponsoring a SQLSaturday that had me thinking about...

T-SQL Tuesday - Use Powershell to Restore a Database on a Different Server

T-SQL Tuesday - This month's party is hosted by Wayne Sheffield (blog|twitter), and the topic is about Powershell and how to use...

SELECT TOP 5 PERCENT WITH TIES

LinkedIn sent me an email on Monday that said my profile was in the top 5% of viewed profiles in...

Restore SSP || Create SSP with Backup|| Create SSP with Full customization again

Friends, Life is not easy and every time we cannot create a fresh/new server, environment or a new configuration. What...

Day 27 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Restoring Part of a Database

Today is day 27 of my series 31 Days of Disaster Recovery, and I want to talk about restoring a...

Install .NET Framework using #Powershell (#TSQL2sday!)

One of the really great things about being married to an MCM is that I can steal recycle his blogs,...

Generate Random Passwords using T-SQL

Use following script to generate random Passwords
DECLARE @id int,@list varcharSET @list ='abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ23456789.,-_!$@#%^&*'selectreplace(SUBSTRING(CONVERT(varchar(255),NEWID()),8, 8),'-','')as RANDOM

Example:
Suppose you have a table tblUser with columns[id],[userid],[password].
CREATETABLE [dbo].[tblUser](     ...

T-SQL Tuesday #39 - Here's what my PoSH is cooking

My first official entry for T-SQL Tuesday (my first was a guest post hosted by Kendal Van Dyke (blog|twitter), so I’m not really counting it) is brought to you...

February 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist

February is a short month… and if you are following the Monday’s you know that today’s the second Monday of the...