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)
2,512 reads
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)
2,639 reads
2011-09-15 (first published: 2011-09-05)
2,930 reads
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)
10,087 reads
2011-09-12 (first published: 2011-09-02)
1,521 reads
2011-09-09 (first published: 2007-11-19)
8,941 reads
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 1 (This is the first article in a three-part series...
By Steve Jones
Thanks for attending my sessions. Resources below: Slides: Using Data API Builder GitHub repo: ...
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone that attended my sessions at VS Live San Diego yesterday. It...
When I run my query from DW, which uses a linked server, it times...
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How many Azure SQL DB Hyperscale HA replicas can be configured as of Sept 2026?
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