Display Rows Vertically or Alphabetically
Display a row vertically when a table has hundreds of columns to avoid scrolling.
2010-01-21 (first published: 2009-12-30)
3,416 reads
Scripts
datetime precision
Accuracy and precision go hand-in-hand. This script helps trim date values to whatever size is stored in a table's column.
2010-01-20 (first published: 2009-12-21)
1,539 reads
Implementing Most Recently Used Lookups
This script will adapt ordering of look-up lists by foreign key usage.
2010-01-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
1,003 reads
Validate Deployed Databases by Version
Save all object definitions to a single stored procedure for easy validation
2010-01-14 (first published: 2009-12-18)
800 reads
return a file Last Modified Date
This function takes a UNC file as a parameter and return the last modified date
2010-01-13 (first published: 2009-12-17)
2,593 reads
Store Procedure Output in a Table
This script show a demonstration of how to interst tore Procedure Output in a Table.
2010-01-08 (first published: 2009-12-18)
2,506 reads
2010-01-07 (first published: 2009-12-18)
1,750 reads
SQL Server Agent Schedule Decoder
This script will break job schedules down into a readable format (msdb.dbo.sysschedules)
2010-01-06 (first published: 2009-12-16)
1,996 reads
Find weak login passwords in your server
Use this script to search for SQL Server logins who use weak password
2010-01-05 (first published: 2009-12-16)
4,464 reads
Script to Compress Tables and Indexes
This script creates scripts to compress all tables and indexes in a database.
2010-01-04 (first published: 2009-12-11)
15,963 reads
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Hyperscale Replicas V
I have an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition system running with a geo-replica enabled. Can I create a new geo-replica based on the current secondary geo-replica?
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