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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.

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2007-01-02 (first published: )

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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 […]

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2007-01-01 (first published: )

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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 […]

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2006-12-28 (first published: )

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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.

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2006-12-26 (first published: )

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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.

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2006-12-25 (first published: )

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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 […]

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2006-12-22 (first published: )

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Checking the Error Log I

On my SQL Server 2025, I want to search the error log from my T-SQL code for potential issues and then inform an administrator. What is the current way to easily query the error log?

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