Automate drive space monitoring for all production servers
Monitoring space in production server is one of the top priority tasks for a DBA. This script will automate it
2011-04-19 (first published: 2009-05-28)
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Reindex all indexes online or offline depending on day of week.
This script will reindex (online) any index eligible to be reindexed online. Accepts a day of week parameter for full offline reindexing.
2011-04-18 (first published: 2008-10-01)
4,699 reads
Extend CHARINDEX with occurance matching
Retrieve the charindex of matching string for the desired occurrence
2011-04-13 (first published: 2011-04-06)
1,509 reads
Security Audit Db_DataReader
Uses sp_MsForEachDb, locates members in db_datareader with permissions other than Select and Connect.
2011-04-11 (first published: 2011-03-29)
1,094 reads
Killing User Connection(session) connected to the Database.
The script will be helpful to kill all the user sessions before performing the refresh of the database.
2011-04-08 (first published: 2011-03-29)
2,669 reads
date convertion to different time zone covering multiple location
converting a date from existing timezone to some different time zone covering multiple location
2011-04-05 (first published: 2011-03-24)
1,195 reads
2011-04-01 (first published: 2008-02-23)
3,819 reads
Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 3
Third in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2011-03-30 (first published: 2009-02-16)
2,460 reads
Comparing Stored Procedures, Part 2
Second in a series of scripts demonstrating a quantitative comparison between the text of two stored procedures
2011-03-29 (first published: 2009-02-09)
2,545 reads
2011-03-28 (first published: 2009-02-06)
8,134 reads
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RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers