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)
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Scripts
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)
500 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)
1,170 reads
2017-12-29 (first published: 2017-12-27)
1,667 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)
2,964 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)
7,083 reads
Read Only access to all databases to a user in a SQL Server Instance
Script to grant a SQL a user read-only access to all the databases in Server instance except the system databases and
-- the Log shipped databases(if any : secondary :read-only)
2017-11-22 (first published: 2017-11-14)
23,627 reads
Reporting by date - DateTrunc
A function to truncate datetimes to month, quarter, hour etc and their multiples for convenient grouping
2017-11-21 (first published: 2017-11-14)
601 reads
Dynamic SQL procedure for bulk insert
https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit/blob/master/Stored_Procedure/usp_BulkUpload.sql
2017-11-17 (first published: 2015-05-16)
5,256 reads
Logshipping Report
Get Logshipping report only when secondary is more than certain time behind Primary.
2017-11-14 (first published: 2017-10-27)
491 reads
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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