2016-10-20 (first published: 2015-05-15)
1,635 reads
Scripts
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)
513 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)
2,090 reads
2016-10-17 (first published: 2016-10-03)
880 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)
4,395 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)
369 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)
22,175 reads
Shrink Tlog Files
DBA many a times need to shrink the log files if that grows very large. Though I am not recommending to do it daily or often but if space is an issue and you want to release space to OS, you may use the script.
2016-10-11 (first published: 2016-09-22)
949 reads
Change datetime
If you have any requirement to extract next 100 sequential date from a present date, you can use the below script. You can change the @datetimeformat value and the output will appear in the same format.
2016-10-10 (first published: 2016-09-26)
524 reads
2016-10-07 (first published: 2016-09-20)
1,571 reads
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Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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