2016-11-22 (first published: 2016-11-11)
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Scripts
Taking backup of the databases to the Active server alone
If you have Always On and need to stop running database backups to the stand by server, use the script.
2016-11-21 (first published: 2016-11-01)
297 reads
Generate add / alter script for missing / different type columns
This query generate add/alter script for missing or different columns. Execute on source database and copy resultset. Execute generated script on any database (may be all customer databases) Missing columns will be created and different types will change as source schema.
2016-11-18 (first published: 2016-11-07)
921 reads
Equivalent Oracle's INSTR Function in SQL server
Oracle Built in Function INSTR is a great function if you wish to locate a string or a subset of string in the nth place.
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-04)
1,433 reads
Converting values into Rows
Script describe one of the way to divide values into rows by using any specified dividing value.
2016-11-15 (first published: 2016-11-04)
839 reads
2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-06)
717 reads
Function - Word count in a sentence
The function (Inline function) is used to determine the word count in a textual/string input.
* Compatible from SQL Server 2012 and up.
2016-11-11 (first published: 2016-11-04)
495 reads
Automatic restore database to different server from backup file
if you get bunch of back up files ( full backup and transaction log backup, you need restore those database to different server, you can use my stored procedure to genereate the restore command
2016-11-10 (first published: 2014-12-17)
2,561 reads
Build restore scripts dynamically
This script will build restore scripts with the most recent full backup and all t-log backups since, for each user database in the SQL instance.
2016-11-09 (first published: 2016-11-01)
1,373 reads
Monitor your website or any URL from SQL Server
You can monitor your web application by given its url and by creating the job in sql server 2005 which will send you the mail when ever your website is down.
2016-11-07 (first published: 2009-06-17)
11,952 reads
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Question of the Day
Rebuilding All Indexes
I have added a few indexes to one of my tables in SQL Server 2025:
ALTER TABLE dbo.CustomerContact
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_CustomerContact
PRIMARY KEY (CustomerID);
-- Create index on CustomerEmail
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerEmail
ON dbo.CustomerContact (CustomerEmail);
CREATE INDEX IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone
ON dbo.CustomerContact (phone);
I then do this to disable one index:
alter index IX_CustomerContact_CustomerPhone on dbo.CustomerContact disableI see this when I check the index status:
I decide to rebuild all indexes with this command:
ALTER INDEX ALL ON dbo.CustomerContact rebuildAfter I do this, what will I see for the index status? See possible answers