A quick procedure to check which full recovery databases have not had a tran log backup in the given period (default is 7 days). This could mean that the recovery mode might need changing or the transaction log backup jobs need investigating.
2011-09-22 (first published: 2007-08-03)
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A set of user defined functions used to calculate the number of business or working hours (excluding the non working hours) that have passed since a certain point of time.
2011-09-21 (first published: 2007-11-20)
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2011-09-20 (first published: 2008-01-11)
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Ensure all your databases have standardised options by running this script weekly.
2011-09-19 (first published: 2007-12-17)
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Just one way of testing for a linked server based on data within your database.
2011-09-16 (first published: 2007-08-07)
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2011-09-15 (first published: 2011-09-05)
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Recently one of my friend was doing some investigation in a new/unknown database and had really hard time locating the primary key – foreign key relations. Like it’s really tough to locate these relations when not enforced at database level in terms of primary key and foreign key constraints. But generally all database developers keep […]
2011-09-14 (first published: 2007-08-15)
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Delete files on a fileshare leaving behind files not older than n-days.
2011-09-13 (first published: 2008-04-02)
10,090 reads
2011-09-12 (first published: 2011-09-02)
1,523 reads
2011-09-09 (first published: 2007-11-19)
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If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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