A Script A Day - Day 16 - Database Restore
Today’s script is one I have used more times that I care to remember. As a DBA database backups and...
2012-02-22
676 reads
SQL Server 365
A Script A Day - Day 15 - Untrusted Check Constraints
Today’s script comes about because of a recent discussion about check constraints. The discussion was about the use of WITH...
2012-02-22
1,022 reads
A Script A Day - Day 14 - Upgrading to SQL 2012
Today’s script is one I have used to test one possible upgrade method from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server...
2012-02-21
972 reads
A Script A Day - Day 13 - Chris' Top Tip - Batches
Today’s post is pretty cool. So you have been reading up about something on the World Wide Web or you...
2012-02-21
463 reads
A Script A Day - Day 12 - Granting Role Membership to All Principals
Today's script will grant membership in the db_owner fixed database role in all online read/writable user databases to all principals not...
2012-02-20
898 reads
A Script A Day - Day 11 - User Permissions By Database
Today's script will return you permissions granted to a user for every online database. The script uses EXECUTE AS so...
2012-02-20
1,093 reads
Sorry...
I've been offline for a week to take some annual leave and recharge my batteries. To make up for the...
2012-02-20
463 reads
A Script A Day - Day 10 - Hosts on vCentre
If you use VMWare for your virtualisation environment all virtual machines are managed by one or more vCentre management servers. ...
2012-02-10
704 reads
A Script A Day - Day 9 - Index Compression Estimations
Today's script provides amongst other information Index compression estimates based on existing index information. All you need to do is...
2012-02-09
1,310 reads
A Script A Day - Day 8 - Non Clustered Index Information
Today's script comes to you from London where I am at my head office for my appraisal! Lets hope it...
2012-02-08
448 reads
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Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers