2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-29)
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Scripts
Getting transaction log space usage statistics for all databases.
Easy way to get the TLOg space Usage details
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-11-19)
1,390 reads
Job Step Log Output file path
If you have a requirement to carefully have the output file against each sql agent job step, you can use this script. If incase, there are many sql agent jobs and by any reason if any of the step does not have proper o/p file, this script can automatically create the o/p file.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,557 reads
Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database
If you have a requirement to Kill all USer Sessions before starting to restore a Database, you may use this script
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-08)
2,152 reads
Killing User Connection(session) connected to the Database.
The script will be helpful to kill all the user sessions before performing the refresh of the database.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2011-03-29)
2,657 reads
List Out All User Defined Triggers
List Out All User Defined Triggers, along with the database where the triggers are disabled. is_ms_shipped = 1 denotes that its an user written trigger.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-07)
842 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-09-13)
1,930 reads
PowerShell Query to remove backup folders against multiple servers
Remove backup folders from multiple servers.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-09)
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Query to check whether my Full Database Backup is running fine.
The query will help to find whether my database backup to a specific instance of SQL Server is running fine. If HH> 1, this would signify that the backup is running, else this is a failure.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2012-08-25)
1,246 reads
Query to Delete all Folders, Sub-Folders and Files located in a Path
A script to help you cleanup Files/Folders & Sub-folders.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-07-30)
72 reads
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Question of the Day
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