Script to find latest backups for all databases
If you are not the only one who takes care of the backups, knowing the backups taken recently is very crucial for a production DBA.
2009-07-01 (first published: 2009-06-19)
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Scripts
Splitting the string with unique delimiter.
The statement is splited into columns according the delimter and it has been captured in the table datatype.
2009-06-29 (first published: 2009-06-22)
1,216 reads
The Automated DBA: Batch Database File Grower - SQL 2000 Version
Grows all of the data files in a database based on the greater of a fixed minimum free space amount or a dynamic percentage of the size of the largest table in the filegroup.
2009-06-25 (first published: 2009-06-08)
617 reads
The Automated DBA: Batch Database File Grower - SQL 2005 Version
Grows all of the data files in a database based on the greater of a fixed minimum free space amount or a dynamic percentage of the size of the largest table in the filegroup.
2009-06-23 (first published: 2009-06-08)
1,236 reads
The Automated DBA: Batch Database File Grower - SQL2005 ReportOnly Ver
Grows all of the data files in a database based on the greater of a fixed minimum free space amount or a dynamic percentage of the size of the largest table in the filegroup.
2009-06-22 (first published: 2009-06-08)
1,084 reads
The Automated DBA: Batch Database File Grower - SQL2000 ReportOnly Ver
Grows all of the data files in a database based on the greater of a fixed minimum free space amount or a dynamic percentage of the size of the largest table in the filegroup.
2009-06-19 (first published: 2009-06-08)
612 reads
Zip Backups and Copy to Secondary (free)
We discovered a need to compress our backups so that we could copy the files over the network to the DR location (log shipping), to save on transfer time during emergency restores.
2009-06-18 (first published: 2009-06-05)
2,538 reads
The Automated DBA: Space Usage Snapshotter Lite (non-sysadmin dbo)
Records snapshots of space usage stats by partition, index, table, schema, filegroup, and database. Stats include Reserved, Used, and Data for row, lob, and overflow.
2009-06-15 (first published: 2009-05-30)
1,280 reads
2009-06-11 (first published: 2009-05-25)
774 reads
Automated Script to Partition Tables
This script is used to print the alter statement and also partition the table with the respective partition Scheme and Partition Function.
2009-06-10 (first published: 2009-05-22)
2,402 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