Check existence of a database
Check Status of a database. It will loop through all databases and will print message if the db is present.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-10)
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Scripts
Check Existence of Server and find Instance Type
Execute the function and pass only the SQL Server Name to check if the SQL Instance is available and if yes, what is the Instance Type.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-26)
1,317 reads
Check running SQL Services
Check all the running SQL services in different servers.
You can use the details before you start implementing SQL Patch to the servers i.e. if you want to explicitly stop the SQL Services.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-26)
2,118 reads
Check Up Size Of Each Folder In a Path
If you have any requirement to check the size of each sub-folders in a path, you can use my script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-20)
1,667 reads
Cleanup Older than 30 days of Files & Folder through SQL Job
Using Powershell, Cleanup Older than 30 days of Files & Folder through SQL Job
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-08-04)
2,605 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-15)
1,613 reads
Copy Backup Files to Remote Shared Location and Delete them periodically
If you have a requirement where you need to copy all your backup files to any remote shared location from your local folder/drive and after that you need to do a periodic cleanup of the backup files, you can use my script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-06-01)
2,079 reads
Create EndPoint
Server principal 'xx\yy' has granted one or more permission(s). Revoke the permission(s) before dropping the server principal. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15173). If you are gett
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-09-16)
3,130 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-05)
2,340 reads
Delete Backup Files From Default Backup Location
IF you have need to schedule job to cleanup backup files older than N days, you can use my written script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-06-04)
663 reads
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Representing Money
Which types of currency does the money data type represent?
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