Warm the cache with a table and its indexes
Warm the cache with a particular table by reading it into memory.
2016-11-25 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Scripts
2016-11-24 (first published: 2003-07-09)
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2016-11-22 (first published: 2016-11-11)
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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)
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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)
923 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)
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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)
844 reads
2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-06)
718 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)
496 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)
2,562 reads
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Question of the Day
Getting Database MaiL Profiles
If I want to return information about all Database Mail profiles on my instance from T-SQL, how can I do this?
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