2018-02-23 (first published: 2018-02-19)
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Scripts
2018-02-19 (first published: 2018-02-07)
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Compression estimates
The script estimate compression benefits per each object in the database for which the page compression has not been implemented.
2018-02-15 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-24)
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Run SQL/T-SQL scripts on folder
What to do when you have several sql scripts to run in your DB? Put all in a folder and use this...
2018-02-09 (first published: 2018-01-24)
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Remove Database Encryption Key on all user databases
Below script will remove database encryption key, database certificate and master key on all the user databases.
For tempdb database, you need to restart the SQL Server Instance to complete the process.
Note: It is advisable to take transaction log backup before this activity is performed.
2018-02-08 (first published: 2018-01-29)
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All Link servers working status check and failure alert over E-mail
This procedure will help you to automation of link server failure status check with help of SQL agent job scheduling. Job query :-
exec proc_check_linked_servers 'profiler name','E-mail ID'
2018-02-07 (first published: 2018-01-30)
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2018-01-26 (first published: 2018-01-18)
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Compare MS SQL Agent jobs on two servers
During a database migration or a side by side database upgrade project we need to migrate the MS SQL Server Agent jobs. This script compare jobs by names and shows unmatched jobs.
2018-01-25 (first published: 2018-01-20)
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Insert data into a SQL Server Table using Powershell using Invoke-SQLc
How to insert data into a SQL Server Table using Powershell using Invoke-SQLcmd Commandlet
2018-01-24 (first published: 2018-01-11)
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
Forums
Split Large Queries in Athena with a Simple Modulo Trick
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Finding Trailing Spaces
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Question of the Day
Finding Trailing Spaces
I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers