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)
2,943 reads
Scripts
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)
7,071 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)
23,557 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)
578 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)
5,234 reads
Logshipping Report
Get Logshipping report only when secondary is more than certain time behind Primary.
2017-11-14 (first published: 2017-10-27)
475 reads
Delete Change Tracking table data sys.syscommittab
With high transactions table the sys.syscommittab table does not gets deleted properly. Millions of backdated row remains. To delete the sys.syscommittab table below is the script.
2017-11-13 (first published: 2017-10-27)
915 reads
SQL Server procedure to script tables
SQL Server procedure to script all tables in a given database to one or individual files on a given path.
2017-10-09 (first published: 2017-10-04)
2,951 reads
2017-10-05 (first published: 2017-10-02)
16,602 reads
SQL Agent jobs that run SSIS packages
Lists the job names and package names for jobs that execute SSIS packages (for packages stored in msdb).
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-05)
2,037 reads
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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