Delete Backups Older than N Days
SCRIPT TO DELETE OLDER THAN N' DAYS BACKUP FROM A DEFAULT BACKUP DIRECTORY. IF DAYS = 0, PROVIDED,
IT WILL DELETE ALL BACKUP FILES FROM THE BACKUP LOCATION.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-16)
5,625 reads
Scripts
Delete SQL Instance name from default backup location
IF you want to delete the SQL Instance folder of your SQL Named instance after uninstall of your SQL Server Instance, then the script will help you. Note: I did an extra step by using / taking data (INSTALLSHAREDDIR) from your .INI file.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-23)
727 reads
Disk Free Space Check
IF you have a requirement to check disk free space and want to report to the team using email, can use my script
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-06-03)
1,662 reads
Enable Email Notification to all SQL Jobs
If you have a requirement to enable email notification to all the SQL Jobs, then you may use my script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-09-20)
1,066 reads
Execute All .SQL Script easily
If you have a requirement to create Proc/Tables, etc to a SQL Server taking .SQL scripts from a central location (UNC), then you can use my script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-18)
2,529 reads
Extract default & Named Instance from @@servername
Extract default & Named Instance from @@servername.
Print all characters before and after \ to find default and named instance name.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-15)
1,161 reads
Extract SQL Server Key details
Extract SQL Server Name, Instance Name, Service Account details, startMode and ServiceState details with Powershell.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-10-13)
6,124 reads
Extracting only Deadlock details from ErrorLog
If you want to extract only deadlock details, use the script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-03)
3,895 reads
Find no of records in each table in database (against Clustered Index)
If you want to find TotalPages, Usedpages,datapages,totalspaceMB,UsedSpaceMB,DataSpaceMB then can use this query.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-26)
1,518 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-11-22)
801 reads
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Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers