2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-20)
940 reads
Scripts
Disable or rebuild all nonclustered indexes on a table
Can be useful when inserting a lot of data into a table.
2019-02-26 (first published: 2019-02-14)
5,316 reads
Files with larger disk consumption
This script features as we can through the CTE Top10FilesWithLargerDiskConsumption the top ten data files that are showing greater consumption of hard drive related data-reading activities.
2019-01-15 (first published: 2019-01-08)
1,060 reads
Alert DBA - High SQL Server CPU Usage
Collect CPU % for a time period and alert if Average CPU usage is high
2019-01-14 (first published: 2019-01-08)
1,774 reads
Quick SQL connection and process details with current SQL - Version2
Quick check SQL connection and process details with current SQL text
2018-12-19 (first published: 2018-11-27)
978 reads
2018-11-30 (first published: 2017-04-01)
1,105 reads
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-23)
452 reads
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-08)
1,585 reads
Automatically Failover (Enable or Disable) Jobs Based on HADR Role
If you have a SQL Server with a High Availability solution (AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Database Mirroring, etc.), and you also have a bunch of jobs which you need to be run on the Primary server only. You need to be able to "failover" the jobs in case the Primary server is no longer Primary.
2018-11-14 (first published: 2018-11-12)
5,905 reads
Detect and Repair Non Trusted Foreign Keys
Create the code to detect and repair non trusted foreign keys
2018-11-13 (first published: 2018-09-27)
702 reads
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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers