Backup database (Red Gate/Native Backup)
This is just an update which fix a small bug (0 day backup bug with SQL Backup)
2007-01-03 (first published: 2006-12-19)
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Scripts
Date String format with optional Timestamp
I find it so annoying to format dates. Sometimes I want to include the timestamp, but if it is a midnight time stamp, the time is irrelevant. Sending in a datetime will return either the date string or a date string with a timestamp up to the seconds with either AM or PM.
2007-01-02 (first published: 2006-12-20)
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Check and Set Default file Locations with TSQL
Checks the default file locations for your data and log files. If not set, it sets them to the specified values. This is written for a SQL 2005 default instance. Registry paths may be different for SQL 2000 or named instances.The script can be easily modified to update it if the current value is set […]
2007-01-01 (first published: 2006-12-21)
882 reads
Execution of Code on Multiple Servers Remotely
Do you have more than 10 sql servers you must manage? Most DBA s do, I have over 120 sql instances to manage. Before I used to use ISQL/OSQL in a batch to execute a command on all these instances. It works but not very nice. Below is the code I use to collect information […]
2006-12-28 (first published: 2006-10-16)
791 reads
Checking SQLAgent service and starting it if not.
Because many programs I wrote depends on the SQL Agent Service and to really make sure that no one has configured this service to run manually (you see many things in life) I rely on this litle piece of code
2006-12-27 (first published: 2004-09-16)
192 reads
Find Missing Constraints
Procedure to help find missing constraints when comparing two databases that are supposed to be the same. SP has ability to show all constraints per database, and the ability to generate create scripts to make adding the missing constraints easier.
2006-12-26 (first published: 2002-03-12)
782 reads
Checking the REMOTE site of a database-link
When gathering SQL server statistics on ALL our Active SQL servers the script was failing sometime when one of our servers was not reachable for one reason or another.This script is checking if the LINKED SERVER is up and running before executing the "gathering statistics" script for this particular server.
2006-12-25 (first published: 2006-09-29)
191 reads
Update statistics for all tables in any DB
Most of the time even after executing dbcc dbreindex script on database you won't see much improvement in application/DB performance. Thats because dbreindex creates statistics for all tables but it executes sp_updatestats which is like sample statistics. To get the maximum performance we had to execute Update statistics with fullscan on table. This simple will […]
2006-12-22 (first published: 2006-10-23)
21,173 reads
Making sure index definition are optimal
Reports on all indexes on user tables within a databaseReports Tables with Missing Clustered indexReports Tables with Missing Primary KeysReports Possible Redundant Index keysReports Possible Reverse Index key
2006-12-21 (first published: 2004-09-16)
484 reads
faster dbo.ufn_vbintohexstr - varbinary to hex
Here's an alternative to Clinton Herring's ufn_vbintohexstr which should be much faster with large varbinary values. First, in his original version, the inner-loop CASE statements can be replaced with this: select @value = @value + CHAR(@vbin/16+48+(@vbin+96)/256*7) +CHAR(@vbin&15+48+((@vbin&15)+6)/16*7) How does it work? By adding 6 to a hex-digit in (@vbin&15), you have a value from 16 […]
2006-12-20 (first published: 2005-05-07)
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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