Disable or rebuild all nonclustered indexes on a table
Can be useful when inserting a lot of data into a table.
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-14)
5,415 reads
Scripts
Files with larger disk consumption
This script features as we can through the CTE Top10FilesWithLargerDiskConsumption the top ten data files that are showing greater consumption of hard drive related data-reading activities.
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-08)
1,109 reads
Alert DBA - High SQL Server CPU Usage
Collect CPU % for a time period and alert if Average CPU usage is high
2019-01-14 (first published: 2019-01-08)
1,808 reads
Quick SQL connection and process details with current SQL - Version2
Quick check SQL connection and process details with current SQL text
2018-12-06 (first published: 2018-11-27)
1,010 reads
2018-11-30 (first published: 2017-04-01)
1,171 reads
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-23)
486 reads
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-08)
1,620 reads
Automatically Failover (Enable or Disable) Jobs Based on HADR Role
If you have a SQL Server with a High Availability solution (AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Database Mirroring, etc.), and you also have a bunch of jobs which you need to be run on the Primary server only. You need to be able to "failover" the jobs in case the Primary server is no longer Primary.
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-12)
6,198 reads
String Replace in Stored Procedures with Powershell
Find a string in a stored procedure and replace with powershell
2018-11-13 (first published: 2018-11-06)
1,289 reads
Disk Space Check
I was using this script to check disk space on individual servers for quite some time. And now since I started to use registered servers for MS SQL, I thought of a little modification to the script.
2018-11-09 (first published: 2018-10-24)
1,189 reads
Blogs
Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?
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The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
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Pay for Performance
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Access + ODBC Driver 18 + SQL Server 2025: ~150–250 ms per request
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The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
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Question of the Day
The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers