Parsing INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF OVERPUNCH SIGNS
Some times you need to parse over punch values at the while running a query.
Here is an utility function to help with that task.
2018-11-07 (first published: 2018-10-31)
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Scripts
The Pesky Windows Power Plan Oh My
The below script will build a csv file for import of the servers Power Plan Setting.
2018-11-06 (first published: 2018-10-19)
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2018-11-05 (first published: 2018-10-22)
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sp_what
Better* than sp_who2, with less re-checking data to get answers. Also, it is SnaZy. With a capital Z.
*Dont you just love totally non subjective assessments like this?
2018-11-01 (first published: 2018-10-22)
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2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-19)
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Mechanism To Dynamically Build Pivot Table
Script to build PIVOT queries with an arbitrary number of columns
2018-10-25 (first published: 2018-10-15)
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2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-15)
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Detect and Repair Non Trusted Foreign Keys
Create the code to detect and repair non trusted foreign keys
2018-10-23 (first published: 2018-09-27)
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2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-04)
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How to Identify backup tables within production databases
How to identify backup tables within production databases that can be removed.
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-28)
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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