2019-02-27 (first published: 2019-02-20)
949 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)
5,348 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)
1,064 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)
1,780 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)
980 reads
2018-11-30 (first published: 2017-04-01)
1,111 reads
2018-11-29 (first published: 2018-11-23)
454 reads
2018-11-15 (first published: 2018-11-08)
1,592 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)
6,028 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)
712 reads
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locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
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SQL Server Enum Implementation: A Single-Row View Strategy for Avoiding Magic Values
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers