My favorite way to access Excel files
Using opendatasource to retrieve data from Excel files as if querying a table.
2011-03-22 (first published: 2009-01-27)
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Scripts
2011-03-18 (first published: 2010-09-21)
2,870 reads
Update 2 databases with 1 script
This script will allow you to update 2 databases with the same names, but different schemas/software/database versions.
2011-03-14 (first published: 2011-03-03)
2,238 reads
Get Item from Delimited List at Position
Returns the item from a delimited list at the specified position. Both position and delimiter are parameters.
2011-03-10 (first published: 2011-02-21)
1,087 reads
2011-03-09 (first published: 2011-02-21)
817 reads
2011-03-07 (first published: 2011-02-21)
8,687 reads
2011-03-04 (first published: 2011-02-21)
6,139 reads
Monitoring Resource Governor Memory Grants
A very useful query that will allow you to monitor the resource governor memory grants along with other useful information.
2011-03-03 (first published: 2011-02-14)
3,202 reads
Search for a text in all databases
This procedure searches for a specified text in all (or one selected) databases in all (or selected) tables.
2011-03-02 (first published: 2008-01-25)
5,095 reads
2011-03-01 (first published: 2011-02-18)
4,027 reads
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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