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Finding first/last day of month by a date

This script finds the first day of previous, current and next month as well as last day of previous, current and next month.The calculation is based on the ISO date format which makes it independant of the date format used on the SQL Server.The calculation is performed from a date - it can be altered […]

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2004-12-02 (first published: )

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Script to List Missing Identity Numbers

I have a table named employees with an identity column named id. Also,last_name is a column in the table named employees. I created the employeestable and inserted 9 rows in it. If I do a select * from employees, theoutput looks like this:id last_name1 a2 b3 c4 d5 e6 f7 g8 h9 iThen I deleted […]

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2004-11-29 (first published: )

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Find and REMOVE string from stored procedures

This script extends the "Find strings in text of stored procedures" Script by LiviuB and and now finds thestring and removes it. You may modify script to just comment out the text.This script removes the text (in this case 'set dateformat dmy') from all non-system stored procedures in a database.Modify the variable @searchstring to contain […]

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2004-11-26 (first published: )

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Easy and Fast way to check Backup details

Easy and Fast way to check Backup details. One line query to check backup status for all the databases. No need to go to each database or schedule job. Even you can use this query in customized application to get all the details on a single screen.

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2004-11-25 (first published: )

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Get Table Sizes and Percent of Database Size

This script uses two undocumented stored procedures that retrieve all tables in the database in which it is run and lists the data and index sizes, the sum of these sizes, and the table's size percentage of the entire database. The results are presented in descending order of the sum of the data and index […]

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2004-11-24 (first published: )

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