Identify Bad Characters in a Table Column
An interesting recursive CTE to list out the non-alphanumeric characters in a column of a table.
2012-05-08 (first published: 2012-04-12)
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Scripts
2012-04-30 (first published: 2012-04-04)
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Log Shipping - How you can convert the secondary database into primar
This topic explains the log shipping if the primary database is suspected or corrupted and how you can convert the secondary database into primary database.
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-03-31)
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2012-04-26 (first published: 2012-04-02)
1,038 reads
2012-04-25 (first published: 2012-04-02)
2,270 reads
2012-04-24 (first published: 2012-03-30)
1,860 reads
Operators With Jobs and Notifications
This script will list the operators that have jobs
that are configured to notify them with alerts.
2012-04-23 (first published: 2012-03-29)
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Find Database Recovery Mode
The scripts provided below will show you the "Recovery Mode (Model)" for any given database
2012-04-19 (first published: 2008-03-18)
2,013 reads
Find for SQL Objects, Entities or Text
Procedure to find any object such as table/stored procedure by its name, or find for ant text inside stored procedures, functions.
2012-04-18 (first published: 2008-05-28)
3,000 reads
2012-04-17 (first published: 2008-02-15)
7,477 reads
Blogs
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