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)
1,719 reads
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)
3,175 reads
2011-09-20 (first published: 2008-01-11)
2,515 reads
Ensure all your databases have standardised options by running this script weekly.
2011-09-19 (first published: 2007-12-17)
2,152 reads
Just one way of testing for a linked server based on data within your database.
2011-09-16 (first published: 2007-08-07)
2,642 reads
2011-09-15 (first published: 2011-09-05)
2,934 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)
2,816 reads
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)
8,943 reads
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What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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