2018-01-26 (first published: 2018-01-18)
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Scripts
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)
3,505 reads
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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2018-01-23 (first published: 2009-10-27)
15,610 reads
Database maintenance progress
Often we need to know on which stage is a maintenance operation such as: backup, restore, check database. You can get this information using my script.
2018-01-17 (first published: 2018-01-12)
626 reads
Difference between dates displayed in days, hours, minutes and seconds
Show the difference between two dates (from, to) in format #d HH: MM: SS
2018-01-03 (first published: 2017-12-18)
496 reads
Powershell Script for regular DBA activities_GenerateScripts
Powershell utility for
generating scripts for db tables with / without identity columns.It can also produce scripts for fixed number of rows
2018-01-02 (first published: 2017-12-18)
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2017-12-29 (first published: 2017-12-27)
1,661 reads
Trigger Based Change Data capture
This script capture INSERTs / UPDATEs / DELETEs on SQL Server table and logs to single table in JSON Format.
2017-12-22 (first published: 2017-12-01)
2,952 reads
Real World: SQL Server Quick Quality Check
Here is a script that can give the DBA a SQL Instance quick quality check.
2017-12-21 (first published: 2015-01-02)
7,075 reads
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Question of the Day
Rebuilding All Indexes
I have added a few indexes to one of my tables in SQL Server 2025:
ALTER TABLE dbo.CustomerContact
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_CustomerContact
PRIMARY KEY (CustomerID);
-- Create index on CustomerEmail
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerEmail
ON dbo.CustomerContact (CustomerEmail);
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone
ON dbo.CustomerContact (phone);
I then do this to disable one index:
alter index IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone on dbo.CustomerContact disableI see this when I check the index status:
I decide to rebuild all indexes with this command:
ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.CustomerContact rebuildAfter I do this, what will I see for the index status? See possible answers