2016-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-07)
2,615 reads
Scripts
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)
33,264 reads
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)
3,371 reads
2016-10-28 (first published: 2016-10-05)
23,025 reads
Getting top ranked employee detail for each department
Using OVER clause with ROW_NUMBER() function to get top ranked employee detail as per each department.
2016-10-25 (first published: 2016-10-03)
794 reads
Extracting only Deadlock details from ErrorLog
If you want to extract only deadlock details, use the script.
2016-10-24 (first published: 2014-12-03)
3,897 reads
2016-10-21 (first published: 2015-05-12)
2,419 reads
2016-10-20 (first published: 2015-05-15)
1,615 reads
Calculate two internships
Calculates total length of services for a employee. Calculates( addition or subtraction) two internships in form of yy.mm.dd
2016-10-19 (first published: 2016-10-03)
503 reads
Copy Backup Files to Remote Shared Location and Delete them periodically
If you have a requirement where you need to copy all your backup files to any remote shared location from your local folder/drive and after that you need to do a periodic cleanup of the backup files, you can use my script.
2016-10-18 (first published: 2015-06-01)
2,081 reads
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Finding a Database Master Key
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