Add a login to multiple SQL Servers
This is a simple powershell script that will add a particular login to multiple SQL Server instances in a go.
2017-07-19 (first published: 2017-07-04)
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2017-07-18 (first published: 2015-10-16)
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XML import from a Cross-tab Report
Source xml is a rendition of a cross-tab report. I show the evolution of a Spackle solution for import as a SQL resultset.
2017-06-08 (first published: 2017-06-01)
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PBM Policy / WMI query to see which CPUs are in power-saving mode
A simple PBM policy which uses WMI to find out if the CPUs in the target are running at their maximum clock speed.
2017-06-06 (first published: 2011-01-14)
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2017-06-05 (first published: 2016-08-15)
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Getting TEXT, NTEXT and IMAGE columns in Database
As per Microsoft documentation these types will be removed from future version
2017-06-02 (first published: 2017-05-31)
2,943 reads
Function to Round or Truncate DateTime
This Function is used to round to Second, Minute, Hour or Day or to Truncate to Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Month or Year and return Datetime Value
2017-05-31 (first published: 2017-05-23)
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2017-05-25 (first published: 2017-05-15)
1,656 reads
Compute Holiday Day of the Month for any Year
This script provides the day of the month for the standard bank holidays for any given year. This is especially useful for computing the workday after a holiday.
2017-05-24 (first published: 2017-05-10)
541 reads
2017-05-16 (first published: 2017-05-05)
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Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers