Managing Free Space
A new article from Paul Els looks at managing free space on your database servers by finding detached databases and old backup files.
2009-09-10
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Administration
2009-09-04
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2009-08-28
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How to isolate the current running commands in SQL Server
Examining what has already occurred, while valuable in some cases is most likely not as important as what is currently taxing your server. This being the case, how do you examine the currently executing statement for each of the requests issued against your SQL Server instance?
2009-08-14
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Identify last statement run for a specific SQL Server session
The process to return the last query statement executed is quite straight-forward and works in all versions of Microsoft SQL Server since DMOs (dynamic management objects) were integrated into SQL Server.
2009-07-30
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2009-07-28
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2010-11-18 (first published: 2009-07-20)
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The Complete SQL Server 2005 Permissions Report
The script provides complete and comprehensive permission reports, on all SQL Server security hierarchy levels, for all Logins. Reports on particular Logins and databases can be customized.
2010-05-10 (first published: 2009-07-16)
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SQL Server Memory Configuration, Determining MemToLeave Settings
Tweaking SQL Server memory settings to provide support for managed code.
2009-07-06
12,425 reads
Three Sample reports for the Automated DBA: Space Usage SnapShotter
1100 largest indexes by total buffer cache usage; 100 largest tables by total reserved pages; Largest tables in each database with running total of space usage and growth since last snapshot
2009-07-13 (first published: 2009-07-03)
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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