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)
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Scripts
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)
3,933 reads
2016-10-21 (first published: 2015-05-12)
2,431 reads
2016-10-20 (first published: 2015-05-15)
1,654 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)
523 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)
2,109 reads
2016-10-17 (first published: 2016-10-03)
887 reads
Recompile All Databases stored Procedures
When code is getting stall, sometimes the execution plans are point to the wrong or out dated or old objects. You would need to recompile all the stored procedures
2016-10-14 (first published: 2016-09-26)
4,424 reads
Expand Template with Values from Result Set
This stored procedure extracts template variable names and values from a SQL result set in order to process the template.
2016-10-13 (first published: 2016-09-14)
379 reads
SQLCMD to export data in txt file
SQLCMD is one of many methods to export your database data to some text file
2016-10-12 (first published: 2016-09-27)
22,198 reads
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Checking the Error Log II
What is the reason I should change my old code that uses xp_readerrorlog?
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