2009-12-30 (first published: 2009-12-15)
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Administration
Best Practice for renaming a SQL Server Database
One of the Junior SQL Server Database Administrator in my company approached me yesterday with a dilemma. He was assigned a task to rename few of the databases in Beta and Production environments; the reason being the database name was based on some other project that is no longer relevant to the data which is presently stored within the database. At first I started to tell him, but figured it would be smarter to document the same and share the information.
2009-12-08
6,195 reads
2023-08-07 (first published: 2009-11-10)
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How to Connect to a SQL 2005 Server When You Are Completely Locked Out
If you need to connect to a SQL server and don't have the 'sa' password plus the builtin\administrators account has been removed then Rudy Panigas shows us what you need to know.
2011-03-11 (first published: 2009-11-03)
30,556 reads
View Errors in the Default Trace
Returns records with errors from the default trace ordered by most recent first
2009-11-12 (first published: 2009-10-29)
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Wait for Mirror treshold
This procedure checks if a mirror treshold exists and wait until this treshold is cleared or after a specified time.
2009-11-10 (first published: 2009-10-23)
511 reads
Custom cleanup procedure for backup files
There are times when maintenance plan is too simple to do the job, and SSIS is unreachable for you. Here is a simple stored procedure to help you.
2009-11-05 (first published: 2009-10-09)
1,564 reads
The Ultimate Index-Less Foreign-Key Finder
Searches for foreign key constraints that don't have fully matching indexes. The best partial matching indexes are outputted with MatchCounts and column comparisons.
2009-10-15 (first published: 2009-10-01)
1,959 reads
2009-10-09 (first published: 2009-09-29)
2,110 reads
Part 2: Why you should be using the Full Recovery Model
Part 2 of the SQL Server Essentials Series looks at why you should be using the Full Recovery Model to protect your data assets.
2009-09-21
9,139 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers