Last Sunday
Needed to return the week ending date as Sunday for daily transactions multiple times, for several aggregate reports. This function returns the last Sunday for past or future weeks.
2009-05-11 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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Scripts
Cluster Information
This script will display information about the instance(s) on your cluster. Name of nodes, active node and drive letters of the resources
2009-05-08 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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2009-05-07 (first published: 2009-03-27)
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Convert GMT/UTC to Local datetime
International Applications require timezone handling for different users Here is how to do this with SQL.
2009-05-06
4,203 reads
Easily calculate the size of your tables
This quick and dirty sql will tell you the number of rows in your tables, the size in MB of yout data, and the total size (including indexes)
2009-05-04 (first published: 2008-10-04)
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What SQL JOb's are running on 2005 Server
This script returns the information of all SQL Jobs that are running on the server with the latest status.
2009-05-01 (first published: 2009-04-08)
1,660 reads
Check if a sql server agent job ran
Checks if a sql server job ran successfully in the last xx minutes.
2009-04-29 (first published: 2009-04-02)
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2009-04-28
2,408 reads
usp_SQL_In_sp_who2
Ammends the sp_who2 procedure with the input buffer contents, ususally the SQL statement for that SPID
2009-04-24 (first published: 2009-03-27)
1,324 reads
2009-04-22 (first published: 2009-03-19)
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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