2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-08)
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Scripts
Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step
Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step.
This helps if you want to find out the location of each output file of jobs to find out whether those are going to the right location.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-24)
3,332 reads
Read all trace file data and print the action performed
If you want to read trace file records from default trace location and want to print to see what are all the activities happened on SQL Server, the query will be helpful for you.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-11-12)
2,331 reads
READ Data from default Trace
READ Data from default Trace to know when the objects are altered. If no database name is provided, it will run through all the databases.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-08)
1,415 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-10-05)
23,001 reads
Report Alerts from SQL ErrorLog
Sends Back Critical Alerts from ErrorLog occurred in the last 24 Hrs. You can even modify the data [Check @start and change the value]
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-15)
2,491 reads
Retrieving XML data to Table from dm_os_ring_buffers
Retrieving XML data to Table from dm_os_ring_buffers for better readable purpose
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-08-03)
989 reads
Run a specific query across all servers using powershell
Run a specific query across all servers using powershell
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-06)
3,262 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2010-12-15)
2,985 reads
Search a string in a text with number of occurrences
IF you have a long string and if you want to search a specific input string, and number of timeS the string has occurred then it's helps
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-29)
1,422 reads
Blogs
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Failure: "External table is not in the expected format."
Good Afternoon, 1) I run a SSIS Package (.dtsx) in Visual Studio and it...
Permissions Removal When Changing Object Schema
When the schema of an object is changed, SQL Server wipes out the previous...
Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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