Alert for low identities available
This script alert when a table on a DB has a low number of identities available
2016-07-25 (first published: 2016-07-16)
539 reads
Scripts
Random Lottery Number Generator
This script will generate 5 lottery numbers plus one mega and you can set how many tickets and the range for the numbers for the different types of lotteries.
2016-07-22 (first published: 2016-07-13)
2,081 reads
Missing Index Script with Create Statement
standard missing index script but has a create statement to copy and past
2016-07-21 (first published: 2016-07-07)
2,145 reads
Capture Linux Drive Space data with Powershell
Capture Linux Drive Space data with Powershell using Posh-SSH module
2016-07-19 (first published: 2016-07-06)
1,273 reads
2016-07-18 (first published: 2016-06-28)
659 reads
Get earliest and latest date values in a database
Query the earliest and latest date values found in all datetime columns in the current database.
2016-07-12 (first published: 2016-06-21)
3,215 reads
2016-07-05 (first published: 2016-05-26)
4,912 reads
2016-07-04 (first published: 2016-06-08)
888 reads
2016-07-01 (first published: 2016-05-24)
663 reads
Job Step Log Output file path
If you have a requirement to carefully have the output file against each sql agent job step, you can use this script. If incase, there are many sql agent jobs and by any reason if any of the step does not have proper o/p file, this script can automatically create the o/p file.
2016-06-30 (first published: 2016-05-20)
1,560 reads
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers