Different Date Formats
You Can Find Some Date Functions and extracting the different Date Formats using the Convert and Cast
2012-03-23 (first published: 2007-10-26)
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Scripts
Split Function to break the Job History Message into a Table
Split Function for T-SQL Server to break the Job History Message into Table.
2012-03-22 (first published: 2012-03-05)
1,090 reads
Session complete status and estimated completion time
A small retake on the popular percent complete script which tell how much more time an executing command will take.
2012-03-21 (first published: 2012-03-07)
1,624 reads
Select the last error in the job selected
The job will send an HTML email with the latest error at specific job.
2012-03-15 (first published: 2012-03-05)
897 reads
Fix SSRS Subscription Owners
Stored procedure to update SSRS Subscription owners to avoid email errors.
2012-03-13 (first published: 2012-02-28)
1,464 reads
Get Top Queries Taxing SQL Server CPUs
Script which uses SQL Server DMOs to gather top CPU taxing queries which can benifit most from tuning.
2012-03-10
2,888 reads
Generate INSERT for table with IDENTITY column
Generate a "INSERT INTO...SELECT FROM" script for a table with an identity column.
2012-03-09 (first published: 2008-01-07)
4,250 reads
Testing all procs before upgrading to Compatibility Level 90
You can use this script to check if any procs will break under compatibility level 90.
2012-03-08 (first published: 2008-01-29)
4,371 reads
Shrink all databases
Procedure changes all databases' recovery mode to simple and shrinks them all (or at least it tries to).
2012-03-07 (first published: 2008-01-14)
3,924 reads
Sending Job Failed Information Through E-Mail Using T-SQL
Sending Job Failed Information Through E-Mail Using T-SQL.
2012-03-06 (first published: 2012-02-13)
2,327 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Finding a Database Master Key
Where do I check for the existence of a Database Master Key (DMK) in SQL Server 2025?
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