2011-02-18 (first published: 2011-01-25)
3,061 reads
Scripts
Financial Month
This Script will return the respective financial month(Starts from April to March) for a calander month Input(Starts from January to April), May use for many Consolidated Financial Reports.
2011-02-16 (first published: 2011-02-05)
1,529 reads
(new) Kill ALL Connections To a SQL Database
Ever puzzled by the database "Currently in Use" error even though you thought all connections had been Killed? That’s because the wrong table SysProcesses was used.
2011-02-15 (first published: 2011-01-26)
3,938 reads
Query to get tables with no clustered indexes
Query to get tables with no clustered indexes(2K5,2K8,2K8 R2)
2011-02-14 (first published: 2011-01-28)
1,845 reads
2011-02-11 (first published: 2011-01-31)
2,940 reads
Searching through SPs, Tables, Views
Find quickly all stored procedures, tables and views that are somehow related to the search term.
2011-02-09 (first published: 2011-01-28)
2,745 reads
List all Columns in Server Part 2
Generates a list of Server, Database, Table , Column Names and properties
2011-02-08 (first published: 2011-01-31)
1,379 reads
Resend Failed Scheduled Reports on Demand in SSRS
This Stored procedure re-sends the failed reports subscriptions on Demand.
2011-01-31 (first published: 2011-01-12)
1,106 reads
2011-01-28 (first published: 2011-01-11)
1,800 reads
Resend the reports scheduled to send on today's date
This stored Procedure grabs the reports scheduled to run on today's date and reruns the subscriptions on demand.
2011-01-26 (first published: 2011-01-12)
875 reads
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Question of the Day
Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers