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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Scripts
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)
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2016-11-14 (first published: 2016-11-06)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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2016-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Script All Logins / Users / and Roles
This Script Generates A script to Create all Logins, Server Roles, DB Users and DB roles on a SQL Server.
2016-11-02 (first published: 2013-10-31)
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View for Ola Hallengren CommandLog
Add 3 columns, duration in seconds,Pagecount and fragmentation. For people like me who don't enjoy querying XML.
2016-10-31 (first published: 2015-11-12)
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SQL Server Audit Failures
If I have a SQL Server Server Audit setup, what are my options for configuring the instance in the event it can't write to the audit log?
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