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)
3,690 reads
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)
1,091 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)
1,626 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)
899 reads
Fix SSRS Subscription Owners
Stored procedure to update SSRS Subscription owners to avoid email errors.
2012-03-13 (first published: 2012-02-28)
1,466 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)
4,372 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)
3,926 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
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Forums
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why SQL Server Database Attach...
Fixing P1 Queries
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Fixing P1 Queries
BIT_COUNT() IV
Comments posted to this topic are about the item BIT_COUNT() IV
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers