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)
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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)
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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)
543 reads
2017-05-16 (first published: 2017-05-05)
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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