Getting TEXT, NTEXT and IMAGE columns in Database
As per Microsoft documentation these types will be removed from future version
2017-06-02 (first published: 2017-05-31)
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Function to Round or Truncate DateTime
This Function is used to round to Second, Minute, Hour or Day or to Truncate to Second, Minute, Hour, Day, Month or Year and return Datetime Value
2017-05-31 (first published: 2017-05-23)
4,398 reads
2017-05-25 (first published: 2017-05-15)
1,633 reads
Compute Holiday Day of the Month for any Year
This script provides the day of the month for the standard bank holidays for any given year. This is especially useful for computing the workday after a holiday.
2017-05-24 (first published: 2017-05-10)
505 reads
2017-05-16 (first published: 2017-05-05)
917 reads
Round Natural Numbers to the nearest Power of 10
An ITVF function that rounds a number to the nearest Power of 10
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-05)
375 reads
2017-05-10 (first published: 2017-05-02)
382 reads
2017-05-09 (first published: 2017-05-03)
2,880 reads
Fix Orphan Users for All databases - Fixed Collation Problem
Most comman scenario which we face on everyday basis is to fix the orphan database users at the database level. You need to go to each database and fix the orphan users at the each databases.
2017-05-03 (first published: 2017-04-20)
686 reads
Quick and dirty script to ascertain datafile headroom
This is quick script to ascertain datafile headroom based on current size of the data in a file against the max size (which needs to be set for this to work!)
2017-05-02 (first published: 2017-04-19)
395 reads
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