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)
2,563 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)
1,377 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)
11,953 reads
2016-11-03 (first published: 2014-10-07)
2,619 reads
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)
33,355 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)
3,407 reads
2016-10-28 (first published: 2016-10-05)
23,062 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)
817 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)
3,916 reads
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RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers