2016-05-16 (first published: 2012-10-17)
5,580 reads
Scripts
Compare two tables for structure and layout
Compare the structure/layout of two tables within an instance of SQL Server (version 2012) and return non-matches.
2016-05-13 (first published: 2014-04-23)
2,951 reads
Aggregrating varchar columns
Concatenate columns grouping on Index column (approach for summing varchar columns by grouping on index)
2016-05-12 (first published: 2009-09-13)
1,594 reads
sp_spaceused rewritten as one query (no cursors)
Query that simulates running sp_spaceused on every applicable object in a database and gathering it all into a single result set.
2016-05-10 (first published: 2013-06-03)
2,297 reads
Agent Job Schedule Description
Yet another schedule description query with added grammatical improvements.
2016-05-06 (first published: 2016-04-20)
871 reads
Get Space on SQL hardrive
I was recently asked to monitor the Database size on the SQL server, and display the results in a report.
2016-05-05 (first published: 2016-04-16)
820 reads
DBCC CHECKDB to a table
An enhanced version of a script originally posted by Robert Pearl some time ago. It now takes into account changes in the tabelresults for CHECKDB in latter versions of SQL Server.
2016-05-04 (first published: 2016-04-20)
1,300 reads
Brute Force data search tool
searches entire db for a string, number, or date, returns list of results
2016-05-02 (first published: 2016-04-20)
1,277 reads
SQL server Agent - Status
As part of the application to monitor SQL health I created.
The procedure returns status of the SQL server Agent
2016-04-29 (first published: 2016-04-16)
640 reads
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-07)
529 reads
Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
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Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
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Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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