The original function fails when a mistaken split char is being snet to the function.This can easly be corrected by adding an if to check the value of the @holdpos inside the loop before sending it to the substring functionif the value is 0 then break the loop
2005-02-23 (first published: 2005-02-07)
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This script creates a SQL_Statistics table in the Mater Database and then scroll through the existing databases on the server and gathers the Servers Name, logical device name, the file name and the file size and writes it to the table alond with a date time stamp.We run it once a month to gather the […]
2005-02-22 (first published: 2005-02-01)
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The script runs using vbscript code. It requires the user to enter parameters and run the script. The script uses both trusted and standard connection. The script also generate a log file each time it runs. Copy the code below and save it with .vbs extension.
2005-02-21 (first published: 2005-01-31)
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You can return the date as a string (varchar) in whatever date format you like by adding a 'style' to the CONVERT statement. Exmaples of style values are (two left hand columns):1 101 USA mm/dd/yy 2 102 ANSI yy.mm.dd 3 103 British/French dd/mm/yy 4 104 German dd.mm.yy 5 105 Italian dd-mm-yy 6 106 - dd […]
2005-02-18 (first published: 2005-01-31)
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This script will help DBA's who wants to BCP out required tables form any database. This script can be run through as a job. Before running you have to create a table in any given database and store the table names in it, which you want to Bulk copy. Query in this procedure will check […]
2005-02-17 (first published: 2005-01-27)
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There are mainly two components. One job that is managing the full database backup - restore and a second job that manage the transaction log backup - restore. At this two a new one similar with the full database backup - restore can be added for the differential backups if is the case. I will […]
2005-02-15 (first published: 2004-04-01)
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This Stored Procedure Will Get: - The Data and Log File Names - The Data and Log File Sizes (MB) - The Data and Log Percent Utilization (%) for ALL Databases on a SQL Instance. Numbers Should (More Or Less) Reflect What You See on The SQL Enterprise Manager Taskpad. LIMITATIONS: For Databases With Multiple […]
2005-02-14 (first published: 2005-01-13)
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Imports data from MySQL Server; works best with mysql driver 3.51.06! You'll have to create a dsn and then a linked server to that dsn. The script checks if the table exists in the mysql catalog (defined in the dsn properties). Too bad it needs administrative privileges to run (dbcc statement) - my advice: don't […]
2005-02-11 (first published: 2005-01-17)
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Kmlakov's script, t-sql function to parse string data, posted on 1/19/2005, required the passing in text ends with the delimiter. But it is usually not the case. I rewrote the script (added one IF statement). The new script can treat the text with or without ending delimiter. The third parameter will be the number of […]
2005-02-07 (first published: 2005-01-19)
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2005-02-01 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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